{"id":2310,"date":"2017-06-20T07:08:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T07:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2017-07-02T07:23:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T07:23:13","slug":"deadly-car-bomb-attack-rocks-somalias-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/deadly-car-bomb-attack-rocks-somalias-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly car bomb attack rocks Somalia&#8217;s Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">At least 15 people killed in al-Shabab attack on Wadajir district, government official says.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At least 15 people have been killed after a suicide car bomber posing as a milk delivery van detonated at a district headquarters in Somalia&#8217;s capital Mogadishu, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The death toll may rise, as some of the at least nine wounded were badly hurt in the explosion at Wadajir district headquarters in Mogadishu, Captain Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Most of the dead were civilians, Hussein said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A column of white smoke was seen above the capital and some houses were rattled by the blast, DPA news agency reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;We heard a huge explosion in Wadajir district, there are some casualties,&#8221; Abdifatah Omar Halane, the spokesman for Mogadishu&#8217;s mayor, said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Al-Shabaab said they were behind the blast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a suicide car bomb in Wadajir District building in which Somali officials and their staff stay. There are government and their staff who have died at the scene. We will tell you the number of dead later,&#8221; Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab spokesman for military operations, said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The blast comes less than a week after al-Shabab gunmen carried out <span class=\"s2\">an overnight siege<\/span> on a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, killing at least 31 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Al-Shabab was forced out of the capital and other major urban areas in Somalia by national and\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">African Union<\/span>\u00a0multinational forces, but it continues to carry out deadly bombings and attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Targets have included hotels, military checkpoints and the presidential palace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2192 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/06\/deadly-car-bomb-attack-rocks-somalia-mogadishu-170620111009266.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blast comes less than a week after al-Shabab gunmen carried out an overnight siege on a popular restaurant in Mogadishu <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[157,1,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-other","category-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}