{"id":402788,"date":"2021-02-03T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=402788"},"modified":"2021-02-03T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:28:38","slug":"3-militants-killed-in-central-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/3-militants-killed-in-central-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"3 militants killed in central Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU(SONNA)-Three al-Shabab militants were on Tuesday killed and several others injured after a fierce gun battle with the Somali National Army (SNA) near Dhusamareb town, the administrative capital of Galmudug State.<\/p>\n<p>Moalim Abdirahman Geda-Qorow, mayor of Dhusamareb said that troops from SNA and Galmudug State carried an offensive against al-Shabab militants who attacked the town with mortar shells overnight to disrupt an ongoing consultative meeting between President Mohamed Farmajo and leaders of the federal member states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SNA and Galmudug State forces killed three al-Shabab militants, injured several others including one captured alive and recovered four guns of AK47 rifles in a swift military operation near Dhusamareb town,&#8221; Geda-Qorow said.<\/p>\n<p>The al-Shabab fighters claimed to have attacked the town overnight and hurled ten mortar shells to terrify senior government officials and regional leaders attending a consultative forum on forthcoming polls.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came a few hours before the consultative forum between regional leaders and the federal government of Somalia began in the town.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU(SONNA)-Three al-Shabab militants were on Tuesday killed and several others injured after a fierce gun battle with the Somali National Army (SNA) near Dhusamareb town, the administrative capital of Galmudug State. Moalim Abdirahman Geda-Qorow, mayor of Dhusamareb said that troops from SNA and Galmudug State carried an offensive against al-Shabab militants who attacked the town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":401508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402789,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402788\/revisions\/402789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}