{"id":278226,"date":"2019-06-06T19:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXGh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wNi9uZWttZXRlLWdyZW5hZGUtYXR0YWNrLWluanVyZWQtNy1zb2NjZXItcGxheWVyLXNob3QtdG8tZGVhdGgv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:26","slug":"a-grenade-attack-in-nekemte-injured-seven-people-and-a-local-soccer-player-was-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278226","title":{"rendered":"A grenade attack in Nekemte injured seven people and a local soccer player was shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Borkena reported that a grenade attack in Nekemte, in western Oromia, had injured seven people, and that Wondwossen Yohannes, a player for the city\u2019s club, had been shot and killed.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-430686\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Oromo-Liberation-Army-rebels.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A grenade attack in Nekemte injured seven people and a local soccer player was shot dead\" \/>\n<p>The short local report placed another violent incident in a western Oromia city already under strain from politics and insecurity, which made it useful as a dated security marker rather than a full investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as security archive, the Borkena note records the Nekemte grenade attack and the killing of the soccer player as reported in early June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/06\/nekmete-grenade-attack-injured-7-soccer-player-shot-to-death\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia : Nekmete Grenade attack injured 7, Soccer player shot to death&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comNekmete Grenade attack in Oromo region Western Ethiopia reportedly injured 7 people. The City&#8217;s club player, Wondwossen Yohannes, is killed. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":430686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Oromo-Liberation-Army-rebels.jpg?fit=600%2C412&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1anw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755066,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278226\/revisions\/755066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}