{"id":8127,"date":"2021-05-22T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T10:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T11:53:41","slug":"roadside-blast-kills-3-in-outskirts-of-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/05\/22\/roadside-blast-kills-3-in-outskirts-of-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside blast kills three in outskirts of Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> At least three people were killed on Friday in a roadside blast in the Garasbaley neighborhood on the outskirts of Somalia&#8217;s capital Mogadishu, police officials and witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An officer who declined to be named told Xinhua that a bomb planted at the roadside went off as a convoy carrying the commissioner of Garasbaley was passing by.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The commissioner and two of his bodyguards died in the blast,&#8221; said the officer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Witnesses told Xinhua that they heard a heavy blast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As we were going out of a mosque, we heard a huge blast; people said government officials have died in the blast,&#8221; Daud Heyle, a witness said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No group has claimed the responsibility for the latest attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/africa\/2021-05\/21\/c_139961485.htm#:~:text=MOGADISHU%2C%20May%2021%20(Xinhua),police%20officials%20and%20witnesses%20said.\" 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; At least three people were killed on Friday in a roadside blast in the Garasbaley neighborhood on the outskirts of Somalia&#8217;s capital Mogadishu, police officials and witnesses said. An officer who declined to be named told Xinhua that a bomb planted at the roadside went off as a convoy carrying the commissioner of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","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\/8127","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=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}