{"id":2503,"date":"2017-08-04T20:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2017-08-04T20:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:50:55","slug":"car-bomb-kills-at-least-one-in-center-of-somali-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/car-bomb-kills-at-least-one-in-center-of-somali-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Car bomb kills at least one in center of Somali capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosives-laden car blew up in the center of Somalia&#8217;s capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring another, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was parked next to a hospital in a busy road that is flanked by several hotels.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility, though the Islamist militant group Al Shabaab has launched frequent attacks in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, I have seen one dead civilian. She was a woman. One man was also injured,&#8221; Mohamed Hussein, a police officer, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Al Shabaab is waging an insurgency to overthrow the Western-backed government and drive out African Union peacekeepers in a bid to take over the country and impose its strict interpretation of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The group ruled over large parts of the nation in the Horn of Africa until 2011, when it was driven out of Mogadishu by the peacekeepers and Somali troops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-somalia-security-idUSKBN1AK1YE\">\u2192 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosives-laden car blew up in the center of Somalia&#8217;s capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring another, police said. The vehicle was parked next to a hospital in a busy road that is flanked by several hotels. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, though the Islamist militant group Al [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[166,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanitarian","category-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}