{"id":42118,"date":"2019-12-29T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42118"},"modified":"2019-12-29T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T15:22:22","slug":"somalia-suicide-car-bomb-attack-kills-dozens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42118","title":{"rendered":"Somalia suicide car bomb attack kills dozens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN)<\/cite>At least 79 people are dead and 149 more injured after a massive car bomb exploded at a busy intersection on the outskirts of Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday, according to a government official.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Government spokesman Ismael Mukhtar also earlier<strong> <\/strong>told CNN that the attacker drove his vehicle into the &#8220;Ex-control Afgoye&#8221; checkpoint, a well-known junction that links the south of Somalia to the capital.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Mukhtar added that university students were among the dead. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN)At least 79 people are dead and 149 more injured after a massive car bomb exploded at a busy intersection on the outskirts of Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday, according to a government official.Government spokesman Ismael Mukhtar also earlier told CNN that the attacker drove his vehicle into the &#8220;Ex-control Afgoye&#8221; checkpoint, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42118","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\/42118","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=42118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}