{"id":37805,"date":"2019-03-28T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37805"},"modified":"2019-03-28T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:23:26","slug":"somalia-at-least-11-killed-by-car-bomb-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37805","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: At least 11 killed by car bomb in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"101.097915351\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A car bomb exploded near a hotel and restaurant in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/somalia.html\">Somali<\/a> capital on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, rescue services said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The afternoon explosion on a busy road in Mogadishu sent a huge cloud of smoke into the sky and destroyed two restaurants and cars parked in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Witnesses reported seeing bodies strewn on the ground as plumes of smoke rose high into the air.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death toll we have confirmed so far is 11 people, with 16 others wounded,&#8221; said Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan, director of the Aamin Ambulance service, adding that the toll could still rise. &#8220;There could be more losses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mogadishu is regularly targeted by the al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabab figthers, who have been battling for over a decade to topple the government.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place on the busy Maka Al-Mukarama road, one of the main highways through the seaside capital, an area busy with businesses and travellers.<\/p>\n<h2>Latest attack<\/h2>\n<p>Witnesses said several cars and three-wheeler motorbikes were destroyed by the force of the blast.<\/p>\n<p>The bombing is the latest in a recent string of blasts in the capital, which has been hit regularly by Shabaab attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Shabaab fighters fled fixed positions they once held in Mogadishu in 2011, and have since lost many of their strongholds.<\/p>\n<p>But they retain control of large rural swathes of the country, and continue to wage a guerrilla war against the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/somalia-dead-al-shabab-assault-mogadishu-190323083628840.html\">Saturday<\/a>, 15 people were killed in two explosions and a gunfight between al-Shabab fighters and security personnel in central Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car bomb exploded near a hotel and restaurant in the Somali capital on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, rescue services said. The afternoon explosion on a busy road in Mogadishu sent a huge cloud of smoke into the sky and destroyed two restaurants and cars parked in the area. Witnesses reported seeing bodies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37805","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\/37805","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=37805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}