{"id":28063,"date":"2016-08-26T02:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T02:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somalia-attack-gunman-storm-beach-restaurant-in\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T02:38:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T02:38:47","slug":"somalia-attack-gunman-storm-beach-restaurant-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somalia-attack-gunman-storm-beach-restaurant-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia attack: Gunman storm beach restaurant in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{At least seven people have been killed in a bomb and gun attack on a seaside restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu.}<\/p>\n<p>Police said a car bomb exploded outside the Banadir Beach Club in the Lido area and gunmen then stormed the building.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces say they killed two attackers and arrested another after a six-hour operation overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The militant Islamist group al-Shabab stages regular attacks in Mogadishu and other parts of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, 17 people died when the group stormed a restaurant on Lido beach.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, was ousted from Mogadishu in August 2011 but still has a presence in large areas of southern Somalia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14547 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90934069_034955840.jpg\" alt=\"A car bomb was detonated outside the restaurant before gunmen stormed in\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{At least seven people have been killed in a bomb and gun attack on a seaside restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu.} Police said a car bomb exploded outside the Banadir Beach Club in the Lido area and gunmen then stormed the building. Security forces say they killed two attackers and arrested another after a [&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-28063","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\/28063","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=28063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28063"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28063"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}