{"id":121404,"date":"2026-03-05T00:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/?p=121404"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:27:18","slug":"121404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2026\/03\/121404\/","title":{"rendered":"Four children killed in an unexplained explosion in the city of Dikhil, Djibouti."},"content":{"rendered":"

Four children have been killed in an explosion in southern Djibouti, which authorities said was suspected to have been caused by a drone, the Addis Standard reported, citing AFP.<\/p>\n

Djibouti\u2019s Attorney General, Hassan Mohamed Hassan, said in a statement that the explosion took place in the Dikhil region of the Afar region. He described the incident as a \u201ctragic tragedy\u201d and that an investigation team had been sent to determine the exact cause of the explosion.<\/p>\n

The Djibouti Human Rights Association said in a statement that two children, aged six and seven, a girl and a boy, died on the spot, while two others died of their injuries after not receiving immediate medical attention.<\/p>\n

The association said the children were guarding their livestock at the time of the incident. It was also confirmed that six other children were injured, one of them seriously.<\/p>\n

The Djibouti Human Rights Watch said this was the sixth drone attack in the region in six months, and that the attacks had targeted nomadic communities.<\/p>\n

The incident follows an earlier incident in February last year when authorities said they had carried out a drone strike near the Ethiopian border, killing eight members of a rebel group and an unspecified number of civilians.<\/p>\n

The Djiboutian government has not said who carried out the drone attack.<\/p>\n

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Four children have been killed in an explosion in southern Djibouti, which authorities said was suspected to have been caused by a drone, the Addis Standard reported, citing AFP. Djibouti\u2019s Attorney General, Hassan Mohamed Hassan, said in a statement that the explosion took place in the Dikhil region of the Afar region. He described the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhacdoyinka-caalamka","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121418,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121404\/revisions\/121418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}