{"id":7503,"date":"2021-02-21T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7503"},"modified":"2021-02-24T18:26:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:26:56","slug":"bomb-blast-kills-at-least-two-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/02\/21\/bomb-blast-kills-at-least-two-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb blast kills at least two in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 <\/strong>At least two people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday and several others \u2013 including civilians \u2013 wounded when a bomb blast targeted a vehicle carrying a local government official.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack took place near Bal&#8217;ad, where a main security checkpoint into Mogadishu is located, Ahmed Dahir, a local police official, told Anadolu Agency over the phone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the attack, an improvised explosive device targeted the local government official, Dahir added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;At least two people including a civilian were killed and several people including a civilian driving a moto rickshaw were wounded in the attack,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Residents who spoke to Anadolu Agency over phone said they heard a huge explosion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bomb attack but Somali-based al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group, has been responsible for many deadly bombings in the Horn of Africa country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, a roadside bomb targeted a vehicle carrying police officers in Tarabuka in Mogadishu&#8217;s Hodan neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somali police spokesman Sadaq Adan Ali told Anadolu Agency over the phone that one police officer was wounded and the vehicle was slightly damaged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local media also reported that at least three people, including civilians, were wounded in the attack, the second bomb blast in Mogadishu in less than four hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Shabaab also claimed on Sunday that it had attacked several bases of African Union peacekeeping forces in southern Somalia overnight.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/bomb-blast-kills-at-least-2-in-somali-capital\/2152062\" 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;\u00a0 At least two people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday and several others \u2013 including civilians \u2013 wounded when a bomb blast targeted a vehicle carrying a local government official. The attack took place near Bal&#8217;ad, where a main security checkpoint into Mogadishu is located, Ahmed Dahir, a local police official, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7503","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\/7503","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=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7507,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions\/7507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}