{"id":11234,"date":"2022-11-05T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T21:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2022-11-07T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T09:36:42","slug":"casualties-feared-as-suicide-bombing-hits-somali-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/11\/05\/casualties-feared-as-suicide-bombing-hits-somali-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Casualties feared as suicide bombing hits Somali capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 <\/strong>Casualties are feared after a suicide bomber blew himself up near an army training facility in the Somali capital Mogadishu, said a security official.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official who spoke to Anadolu Agency over the phone on condition of anonymity after the attack said there were casualties but declined to give an exact figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;What I can confirm to you is that the blast was caused by a suicide bomber who blew himself up near General Dhigobadan training camp in southern Mogadishu. We don\u2019t know how many people have been killed or wounded,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, the state-run Somali National News Agency said: &#8220;Innocent civilian casualties were reported as a suicide bomber blew himself up outside of the Candy Army Base in Mogadishu, a cowardly attack by al-Shabab Khawarij after experiencing military setbacks at battlefields.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The military facility has been targeted by Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab several times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/casualties-feared-as-suicide-bombing-hits-somali-capital\/2730731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">View original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 Casualties are feared after a suicide bomber blew himself up near an army training facility in the Somali capital Mogadishu, said a security official. The official who spoke to Anadolu Agency over the phone on condition of anonymity after the attack said there were casualties but declined to give an exact figure. &#8220;What &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11236,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}