{"id":8794,"date":"2021-08-19T23:29:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T23:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2021-08-23T08:31:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T08:31:23","slug":"suicide-attack-in-mogadishu-kills-at-least-two-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/08\/19\/suicide-attack-in-mogadishu-kills-at-least-two-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide attack in Mogadishu kills at least two people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>At least two people were killed and several others wounded on Thursday evening in a suicide bomb explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The site of the blast was near the headquarters of the country&#8217;s National Intelligence and Security Agency, with a soldier among those killed, a police official in Mogadishu told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The police believe that the attack was caused by a suicide bomber wearing a suicide vest but an investigation is underway,&#8221; said the official, requesting anonymity as he is not authorized to talk to the media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that at least three people, including two soldiers, were wounded in the attack and rushed to hospitals for treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but Somali-based terror group al-Shabaab has claimed recent attacks in the Horn of Africa country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, was behind a truck-bombing attack in October 2017 in the capital Mogadishu that took some 600 lives, the worst attack in the nation&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/suicide-attack-in-somali-capital-kills-at-least-2\/2340613\" 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 &#8211;\u00a0At least two people were killed and several others wounded on Thursday evening in a suicide bomb explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an official said. The site of the blast was near the headquarters of the country&#8217;s National Intelligence and Security Agency, with a soldier among those killed, a police official in Mogadishu &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8794","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\/8794","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=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8796,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/8796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}