{"id":70768,"date":"2022-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordannewsgazette.com\/?guid=fc6f956c63e6834f4e597779c1c9460a"},"modified":"2022-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T00:00:00","slug":"17-killed-in-attack-on-relief-aid-trucks-in-central-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordannewsgazette.com\/17-killed-in-attack-on-relief-aid-trucks-in-central-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"17 killed in attack on relief aid trucks in central Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"
At least 17 civilians were killed and a number of others wounded on Saturday in an attack by Al-Shabab militant group against trucks carrying relief aid in Central Somalia’s region of Hiran, according to the Somali news Agency (SONA).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The terrorists stopped trucks carrying food supplies from the city of Baladweyne to Mahas town and set them on fire, killing 17 people, including women and children,” It quoted a local elder as saying.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Somalia has been fighting a war for years against Al-Shabab, an armed group affiliated with Al Qaeda that was founded in early 2004, and it has claimed numerous terrorist attacks that left hundreds of people dead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Jordan News &amp; Info Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least 17 civilians were killed and a number of others wounded on Saturday in an attack by Al-Shabab militant group against trucks carrying relief aid in Central Somalia’s region of Hiran, according to the Somali news Agency (SONA).The terrorists sto…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n