{"id":35261,"date":"2019-03-13T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35261"},"modified":"2019-03-13T18:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:23:11","slug":"eight-killed-in-blast-at-somali-market-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35261","title":{"rendered":"Eight killed in blast at Somali market: official"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least eight people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a busy livestock market in a village in southwestern Somalia<\/a>‘s\u00a0Bay region, an official has said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least 40 others were wounded, Gof-Gadud village official Hassan Bayow told the local radio on Wednesday, according to the dpa news agency.<\/p>\n

“All the victims were civilians who were there to sell or buy livestock at the time,” he told Radio Kulmiye.<\/p>\n

Bayow said fighters belonging to armed group al-Shabab<\/a> were likely behind the attack because those at the market had refused to pay the group.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab regularly asks villagers for money handouts in the areas where it is present. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n

Somalia has been plagued by violence since a civil war began in 1991 but the country has stabilised somewhat in recent years.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab has been fighting to dislodge Somalia’s Western-backed government, which is protected by African Union-mandated peacekeepers.<\/p>\n

The armed group controls large parts of rural, southern and central Somalia and continues to carry out high-profile attacks in capital Mogadishu and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Since 2017, the United States has dramatically increased air attacks against al-Shabab.<\/p>\n

While 50 such raids were carried out last year by the US military command in Africa, the number this year stands at 23.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least eight people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a busy livestock market in a village in southwestern Somalia’s\u00a0Bay region, an official has said.\u00a0 At least 40 others were wounded, Gof-Gadud village official Hassan Bayow told the local radio on Wednesday, according to the dpa news agency. “All the victims were civilians…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}