{"id":1298,"date":"2015-04-20T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T11:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2015-04-20T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T11:04:07","slug":"six-killed-as-bomb-attack-targets-un-bus-in-northeastern-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/six-killed-as-bomb-attack-targets-un-bus-in-northeastern-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Six killed as bomb attack targets UN bus in northeastern Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six UN workers have been killed in a car bomb explosion in Somalia\u2019s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland.<br \/>\nThe bombing occurred as a minibus was entering the UN office in the city of Garowe, located 788 kilometers (490 miles) north of the capital, Mogadishu, on Monday.<br \/>\nClouds of black smoke surrounded the area after the blast. Security forces immediately rushed to the scene, cordoned off the area and launched an investigation into the incident.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have confirmed the death of six UN staff, including a foreign national,\u201d police official Abdullahi Mohamed said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe bomb is believed to have been attached to the minibus and was detonated near the UN office. Investigations are still ongoing to establish how it happened but I can confirm you that the UN compound was not affected,\u201d Mohamed added.<br \/>\nAl-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab militants claimed responsibility for the Monday attack. The militant group regularly carries out attacks against both Somali government officials as well as foreign aid workers.<br \/>\nThe development came a day after three Burundian soldiers serving with the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) were killed as al-Shabab terrorists attacked their convoy in the town of Leego in Lower Shabelle region. Several other soldiers were also wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six UN workers have been killed in a car bomb explosion in Somalia\u2019s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland. The bombing occurred as a minibus was entering the UN office in the city of Garowe, located 788 kilometers (490 miles) north of the capital, Mogadishu, on Monday. Clouds of black smoke surrounded the area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}