{"id":14746,"date":"2024-08-17T22:08:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=14746"},"modified":"2024-08-18T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T14:13:40","slug":"8-killed-in-double-explosions-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/08\/17\/8-killed-in-double-explosions-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"8 killed in double explosions in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 <\/strong>At least eight people were killed and several others wounded in twin explosions in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, an official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mohamud Ahmed, a police officer in Mogadishu who spoke to Anadolu over the phone, said the attack targeted a tea shop in the Daynile district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe tea shop was busy at the time of the explosions. We believe a bomb to have been planted inside the tea shop,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmed said the shop was frequented by locals and some security forces operating in the area, but he neither confirmed nor denied if security personnel were among the victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No group immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion. At least 12 people were killed when a vehicle carrying soldiers hit a landmine in South West state on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia has been plagued by insecurity for years, with the main threats emanating from al-Shabaab and the Daesh terror groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2007, al-Shabaab has been fighting the Somali government and the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) &#8212; a multidimensional mission authorized by the African Union and mandated by the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Shabaab has stepped up attacks since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud declared an &#8220;all-out war&#8221; on the group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/8-killed-in-double-explosions-in-somali-capital\/3306742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">View original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 At least eight people were killed and several others wounded in twin explosions in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, an official said. Mohamud Ahmed, a police officer in Mogadishu who spoke to Anadolu over the phone, said the attack targeted a tea shop in the Daynile district. \u201cThe tea shop was busy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14746","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\/14746","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=14746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14748,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions\/14748"}],"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=14746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}