{"id":28204,"date":"2016-08-31T02:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somalia-deaths-as-car-bomb-explodes-in-mogadishu\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T02:41:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:41:13","slug":"somalia-deaths-as-car-bomb-explodes-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somalia-deaths-as-car-bomb-explodes-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Deaths as car bomb explodes in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Government soldiers among at least 10 people killed in the latest attack in Mogadishu to be claimed by al-Shabab.}<\/p>\n<p>At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide bombing near the Somali president&#8217;s palace in Mogadishu, which caused a huge blast and destroyed two hotels nearby, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters news agency said al-Shabab fighters claimed responsibility for Tuesday&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera has learned that at least 10 people, including government soldiers, died in the attack and 20 others were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses and social media users reported hearing a loud explosion in Mogadishu, followed by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a blast close to the SYL Hotel area, near the main checkpoint of the presidential palace,&#8221; said Ibrahim Mohamed, a security officer.<\/p>\n<p>Images posted to social media showed huge plumes of smoke rising above the president&#8217;s palace.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab fighters have claimed responsibility for several recent explosions in Mogadishu, including a car bomb and gun attack last week at a popular beach restaurant that killed 10 people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14674 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/652527c38af34711820be60aaca37caf_18.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of people were wounded in the attack\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Government soldiers among at least 10 people killed in the latest attack in Mogadishu to be claimed by al-Shabab.} At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide bombing near the Somali president&#8217;s palace in Mogadishu, which caused a huge blast and destroyed two hotels nearby, according to police. Reuters news agency said al-Shabab [&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":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204","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=28204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28204"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28204"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}