{"id":12443,"date":"2023-07-24T22:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=12443"},"modified":"2023-08-02T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:25:52","slug":"suicide-bombing-at-military-training-facility-in-mogadishu-kills-over-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2023\/07\/24\/suicide-bombing-at-military-training-facility-in-mogadishu-kills-over-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide bombing in Mogadishu kills over 20 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> More than 20 people, including soldiers, were killed and dozens others wounded on Monday when a suicide bombing rocked the Somali capital Mogadishu, a senior official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior security officer in Mogadishu, who spoke to Anadolu on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military training facility in Mogadishu, killing more than 20 people, including new recruits and military personnel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The suicide bomber below himself up during busy hours on Monday. At the time when the blast occurred there was a large queue of new recruits at the Jalle Siyaad military training camp,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that dozens of people also injured in the attack were rushed to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local media put the casualties at more than 30 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somali-based al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Monday voiced deep sorrow over the bombing and condemned the &#8220;heinous terrorist attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;T\u00fcrkiye will continue to stand by its friend and brother Somalia in its fight against terrorism, as it has done so far,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also wished Allah\u2019s grace upon those who lost their lives, extended condolences to the families as well as to the friendly and brotherly people and government of Somalia, and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/suicide-bombing-in-somali-capital-kills-over-20\/2953024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; More than 20 people, including soldiers, were killed and dozens others wounded on Monday when a suicide bombing rocked the Somali capital Mogadishu, a senior official said. A senior security officer in Mogadishu, who spoke to Anadolu on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said a suicide bomber &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443","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=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12451,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions\/12451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}