{"id":7623,"date":"2021-03-09T17:27:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2021-03-12T17:40:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T17:40:39","slug":"49-injured-as-fire-engulfs-religious-center-in-somaliland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/03\/09\/49-injured-as-fire-engulfs-religious-center-in-somaliland\/","title":{"rendered":"49 injured as fire engulfs religious center in Somaliland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HARGEISA \u2014<\/strong>At least 49 people were injured late Sunday when a fire broke out at an Islamic learning center in Hargeisa, the capital of Somalia\u2019s breakaway Somaliland.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wounded include 40 women and eight men as well as a firefighter, the Somaliland Fire Brigade said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Hundreds of students were studying at the institute, and all of them were rescued by the Somaliland Fire Brigade. The building consisted of two floors of 20 rooms and a mosque,&#8221; said the statement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason for the fire is unknown, but the fire brigade said the police are currently investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former British protectorate, Somaliland got its independence in 1960 but days later joined Somalia. In 1991, it declared independence from the rest of the country following a war with the government in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/fire-engulfs-religious-center-in-somaliland-49-injured\/2168020\" 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>HARGEISA \u2014At least 49 people were injured late Sunday when a fire broke out at an Islamic learning center in Hargeisa, the capital of Somalia\u2019s breakaway Somaliland. The wounded include 40 women and eight men as well as a firefighter, the Somaliland Fire Brigade said in a statement. &#8220;Hundreds of students were studying at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-environment-and-disasters","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","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=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7625,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions\/7625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}