{"id":116536,"date":"2021-03-07T14:13:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T06:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116536"},"modified":"2021-03-07T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T06:13:42","slug":"somalias-puntland-state-says-recaptures-some-prisoners-freed-by-al-shabaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116536","title":{"rendered":"Somalia&#8217;s Puntland state says recaptures some prisoners freed by al Shabaab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img src=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/Media\/News\/2018\/11\/24\/2018-636786766120045616-4.jpg\" alt=\"File Photo: Shabab militant movement in Somalia (Photo: AP)\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Shabaab militant movement in Somalia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BOSASO (Puntlad, Somalia), March 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The military in Somalia&#8217;s semi-autonomous state of Puntland have recaptured 87 out of hundreds of prisoners who escaped on Friday after al Shabaab fighters stormed a jail and freed them, according a statement from the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday al Shabaab said they had freed 400 prisoners in a raid on the main prison in Bosaso, Puntland&#8217;s largest commercial city, in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven Puntland military soldiers were also killed in the assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We attacked al Shabaab militants that had attacked Bosaso central cell (prison),&#8221; Puntland military said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In this operation in the hilly areas outside Bosaso, we also recaptured the prisoners.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohamed Abdi, a soldier in Puntland&#8217;s military, said 87 prisoners had been recaptured, adding that the recaptured prisoners were members of al Shabaab and the Daesh group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the statement, Puntland&#8217;s military said they had killed 20 al Shabaab fighters and captured four alive in a battle to free the prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Shabaab frequently carries out attacks in Somalia and elsewhere as part of its campaign to oust the central government in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An African Union (AU)-mandated peacekeeping force AMISOM has been helping defend the central government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somalia has been convulsed by lawlessness and violence since 1991 when dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabaab militant movement in Somalia BOSASO (Puntlad, Somalia), March 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The military in Somalia&#8217;s semi-autonomous state of Puntland have recaptured 87 out of hundreds of prisoners who escaped on Friday after al Shabaab fighters stormed a jail and freed them, according a statement from the military. On Friday al Shabaab said they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}