{"id":31217,"date":"2016-12-20T01:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/amisom-to-investigate-somalia-killings\/"},"modified":"2016-12-20T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:07:07","slug":"amisom-to-investigate-somalia-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/amisom-to-investigate-somalia-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Amisom to investigate Somalia killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The African Union (AU) says it is investigating two separate incidents in which its troops allegedly killed 11 civilians in Somalia.}<\/p>\n<p>An AU armoured vehicle reportedly crashed into a house killing a mother and five children in the southern port of Marka on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, soldiers allegedly fired into a minibus killing six passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of AU soldiers are in Somalia to help the government fight Islamist militant group al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>Although some residents say five people died in the incident in Marka, the governor says six people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An Amisom vehicle ran into a family house killing a mother and five children,&#8221; Marka district governor, Hassan Omar Moalin told the BBC Somali service.<\/p>\n<p>He said the incident occurred after an explosion had targeted the AU convoy.<\/p>\n<p>In the first incident, one resident said soldiers had opened fire on a minibus killing all six passengers in Qoryooley town in the Lower Shabelle region on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AMISOM notes with concern the unfortunate incident in Qoryooley where civilians lost their lives in an attack,&#8221; the mission said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Amisom added that it was &#8220;investigating the allegations against its troops and gathering further facts and information before releasing a comprehensive statement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17164 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_93036086_gettyimages-139440243.jpg\" alt=\"AU soldiers are helping the Somalia government push out militant group al-Shabab\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The African Union (AU) says it is investigating two separate incidents in which its troops allegedly killed 11 civilians in Somalia.} An AU armoured vehicle reportedly crashed into a house killing a mother and five children in the southern port of Marka on Sunday. Earlier, soldiers allegedly fired into a minibus killing six passengers. Thousands [&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":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31217","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=31217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31217"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31217"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}