{"id":3540,"date":"2014-07-03T20:58:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T13:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2014-07-03T20:58:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T13:58:56","slug":"somali-mp-assassinated-al-shabaab-claim-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/somali-mp-assassinated-al-shabaab-claim-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali MP assassinated, al Shabaab claim responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mogadishu – Somalia\u2019s Al-Qaeda-linked al Shabaab claimed responsibility for shooting dead a lawmaker and wounding another on Thursday, the latest in a surge of attacks in Mogadishu during Islam\u2019s holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a targeted assassination. We also wounded another MP and two body guards,\u201d Shabaab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP.<\/p>\n

A witness said MP Ahmed Mohamud Hayd, a former minister and a senior army commander, was killed in the capital\u2019s port district, one of the most heavily policed areas in the heart of the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to hunt other MPs if they do not leave the apostate organisation,\u201d Abu Musab added.<\/p>\n

Gunmen in a car opened fire on the lawmakers as they left a hotel, spraying bullets at the small group of people…<\/p>\n

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Mogadishu – Somalia\u2019s Al-Qaeda-linked al Shabaab claimed responsibility for shooting dead a lawmaker and wounding another on Thursday, the latest in a surge of attacks in Mogadishu during Islam\u2019s holy month of Ramadan. \u201cThis was a targeted assassination. We also wounded another MP and two body guards,\u201d Shabaab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[258,256,497,570,2070,2069,4695,257,1907,2068,4690,442,2067,254],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-shabaab","tag-apostate-organisation","tag-attacks-in-mogadishu","tag-east-africa","tag-news","tag-ramadan","tag-shooting-dead-a-lawmaker","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-somalias-al-qaeda-linked-al-shabaab","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}