{"id":30629,"date":"2016-11-26T23:44:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T23:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somalia-car-bomb-blast-rips-through-mogadishu\/"},"modified":"2016-11-26T23:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T23:44:25","slug":"somalia-car-bomb-blast-rips-through-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somalia-car-bomb-blast-rips-through-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia car bomb: Blast rips through Mogadishu market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A car bomb has killed at least 11 people and injured 16 others in Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu.}<\/p>\n<p>The blast hit a market in the Waberi area, while President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was visiting a nearby university.<\/p>\n<p>No group claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell on the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was chaos and severed dead bodies strewn around the street,&#8221; said Abdulahi Osman, a witness.<\/p>\n<p>More than 22,000 peacekeepers are currently deployed in Somalia in the multi-national African Union force.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab, which wants Somalia to follow a strict version of Shariah law, opposes their presence.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being ousted from most of its key strongholds in south and central Somalia, the Islamist group continues to launch deadly guerrilla attacks against the Somali government and foreign troops.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16666 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_92673262_mogadishu.jpg\" alt=\"Security officers at the scene of the suicide car bomb, which hit a market in southern Mogadishu\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A car bomb has killed at least 11 people and injured 16 others in Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu.} The blast hit a market in the Waberi area, while President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was visiting a nearby university. No group claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell on the Islamist militant group al-Shabab. &#8220;There was chaos and severed dead [&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-30629","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\/30629","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=30629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30629"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30629"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}