{"id":14543,"date":"2018-09-10T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T08:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14543"},"modified":"2018-09-10T08:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T08:30:01","slug":"libya-blasts-heard-at-national-oil-corporations-tripoli-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14543","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Blasts heard at National Oil Corporation&#8217;s Tripoli offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"75.636672326\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Blasts were heard at the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in the Libyan capital on Monday morning and a security operation is under way at the building, a witness told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Smoke could be seen rising from close to the NOC offices and security officials said they were attempting to deal with gunmen believed to have attacked the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>An employee of NOC told local al-Nabaa TV station that three masked assailants attacked the headquarters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other witnesses said the building was engulfed in smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Posts on social media showed photos of wounded people being carried from the scene, and security forces blocking the roads around the headquarters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"3.39416058394\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">?????? <br \/>????? ?????? ???? ?? ???? ??????? ??????? ????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wTaUFw8Vnv\">pic.twitter.com\/wTaUFw8Vnv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wagak Original (@wagak_original) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wagak_original\/status\/1039056233079164929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tripoli was shaken by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/death-toll-libya-tripoli-rises-fighting-rages-180904101134305.html\">clashes between rival armed groups<\/a> at the beginning of this month but the capital has also seen occasional attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In May, fighters affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group claimed a deadly attack on the national election commission offices in Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>More soon &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blasts were heard at the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in the Libyan capital on Monday morning and a security operation is under way at the building, a witness told Reuters news agency. Smoke could be seen rising from close to the NOC offices and security officials said they were attempting to deal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}