{"id":459551,"date":"2026-04-26T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=459551"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:04:48","slug":"17-somali-migrants-die-in-tragic-mediterranean-crossing-disaster-agency-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/17-somali-migrants-die-in-tragic-mediterranean-crossing-disaster-agency-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Somali Migrants Die in Tragic Mediterranean Crossing, Disaster Agency Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2014 The Commissioner of the Somali National Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA), Mr. Mahmoud Moallin Abdulle, has confirmed that 17 Somali youths died while attempting to cross the sea between Algeria and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman stated that the agency has obtained photographs of the victims and urged their families to come forward for identification and further information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a deeply tragic loss that occurred in the waters between Algeria and Spain, where 17 Somali youths lost their lives while attempting irregular migration. According to the information we have, 12 were male and 5 were female, aged between 18 and 30,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Abdulle extended his condolences to the families of the victims and the Somali people at large. He added that investigations are ongoing to gather more details and called on the parents and relatives of the deceased to contact the agency to receive information about their loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2014 The Commissioner of the Somali National Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA), Mr. Mahmoud Moallin Abdulle, has confirmed that 17 Somali youths died while attempting to cross the sea between Algeria and Spain. The Chairman stated that the agency has obtained photographs of the victims and urged their families to come forward for identification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":459552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-459551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459551","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459553,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459551\/revisions\/459553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}