{"id":25949,"date":"2016-06-09T02:34:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/al-shabab-claims-killing-43-soldiers-at-ethiopian\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T02:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:34:40","slug":"al-shabab-claims-killing-43-soldiers-at-ethiopian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/al-shabab-claims-killing-43-soldiers-at-ethiopian\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabab claims killing 43 soldiers at Ethiopian base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Spokesperson for the group says several of its fighters also killed in attack about 300km north of Somali capital.}<\/p>\n<p>Somali rebel group al-Shabab said it has killed 43 soldiers in an attack on a base of Ethiopian troops serving with the African Union&#8217;s AMISOM force in the Horn of Africa nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our fighters stormed the Halgan base of AMISOM &#8230; We killed 43 AU soldiers from Ethiopia in the fighting,&#8221; al-Shabab&#8217;s military operations spokesperson Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told Reuters news agency after Thursday&#8217;s attack, adding &#8220;several&#8221; of its fighters had also been killed without giving a figure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a huge blast. It destroyed the gate and parts of the base,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The base at Halgan town lies in the Hiran region of central Somalia about 300km north of the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>An AMISOM spokesperson had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said they heard a huge explosion at the base and a heavy exchange of gunfire shortly before dawn.<\/p>\n<p>The group often launches gun and bomb attacks on officials, Somali security forces and AMISOM in an effort to topple the Western-backed government and impose its own strict interpretation of Islam on Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Kenyan troops serving with AMISOM suffered heavy losses when al-Shabab made a dawn raid on their camp in El Adde, near the Kenyan border. Al-Shabab said it killed more than 100 soldiers but Kenya gave no exact casualty figure.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12698 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6011ddc4f723493b8290980ca038fc09_18.jpg\" alt=\"AMISOM had no immediate comment on the reported incident\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Spokesperson for the group says several of its fighters also killed in attack about 300km north of Somali capital.} Somali rebel group al-Shabab said it has killed 43 soldiers in an attack on a base of Ethiopian troops serving with the African Union&#8217;s AMISOM force in the Horn of Africa nation. &#8220;Our fighters stormed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25949"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25949"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}