{"id":40090,"date":"2019-07-13T22:22:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40090"},"modified":"2019-07-13T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T22:22:11","slug":"death-toll-in-somalia-hotel-attack-rises-to-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40090","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Somalia hotel attack rises to 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>At least 26 people were killed and a further 56 injured in Friday&#8217;s terror attack at a hotel in Kismayo, Somalia, Jubaland state president Ahmed Madobe said Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Colonel Salah Osman, a police officer who was part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/07\/12\/africa\/hotel-attack-somalia-asasey-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">rescue operation<\/a> on Friday night, told CNN that the attack began when a car bomb exploded in a suicide blast at the gate of the Asasey, a heavily fortified hotel 500 km south of the capital Mogadishu. An assault team of four attackers then entered the premises and battled with Jubaland&#8217;s security forces for 12 hours.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The attackers were shot dead during the fighting inside the hotel, Osman said, while the car bomber died when the explosives were detonated. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)At least 26 people were killed and a further 56 injured in Friday&#8217;s terror attack at a hotel in Kismayo, Somalia, Jubaland state president Ahmed Madobe said Saturday morning. Colonel Salah Osman, a police officer who was part of the rescue operation on Friday night, told CNN that the attack began when a car bomb&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090","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=40090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}