{"id":21794,"date":"2018-11-09T16:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21794"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:23:54","slug":"somalia-at-least-10-killed-in-mogadishu-explosions-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21794","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: At least 10 killed in Mogadishu explosions, gunfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"93.2613875263\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>At least 10 people have been killed in explosions followed by heavy gunfire in Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu, according to police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Plumes of smoke billowed into the air on Friday as at\u00a0<span>least two car bombs went off<\/span>\u00a0near the popular Sahafi Hotel and the <span>Criminal Investigations Department (CID).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>An initial &#8220;two blasts struck the perimeter of the Sahafi Hotel along the main road,&#8221; <span>Ibrahim Mohamed, police official, was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.76595744681\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Double explosion rocks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mogadishu?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mogadishu<\/a>, heavy gunfire near the CID Headquarters and Sahafi Hotel. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Somalia?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Somalia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l6qJVIu3pV\">pic.twitter.com\/l6qJVIu3pV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abdulaziz Billow Ali (@AbdulBillowAli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbdulBillowAli\/status\/1060888518891892736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><span>&#8220;W<\/span>e are getting more than 10 people died, most of them civilians and some security guards,&#8221; he added <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>A third explosion later hit the busy street, according to witnesses.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some of the victims were burned beyond recognition when one car bomb exploded next to a minibus, witness Mohamed Hussein said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The street was crowded with people and cars, bodies were everywhere,&#8221; said Hussein Nur, a shopkeeper who suffered light shrapnel injuries on his right hand. &#8220;Gunfire killed several people too.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ali Nur, police officer, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency that the death toll stood at 17.<\/p>\n<p>Militants from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/al-shabab.html\">al-Shabab<\/a> claimed <span>responsibility\u00a0<\/span>for the attack, according to the group&#8217;s Adalus radio station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/11\/9\/75b8c99f7cd0462da53aa0153ca49ab2_18.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody readability=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/11\/9\/75b8c99f7cd0462da53aa0153ca49ab2_18.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td class=\"caption\">The aftermath of the explosion in the Somali capital [Feisal Omar\/Reuters]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 10 people have been killed in explosions followed by heavy gunfire in Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu, according to police. Plumes of smoke billowed into the air on Friday as at\u00a0least two car bombs went off\u00a0near the popular Sahafi Hotel and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). An initial &#8220;two blasts struck the perimeter of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21794","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\/21794","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=21794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}