{"id":402877,"date":"2021-02-13T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T08:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=402877"},"modified":"2021-02-13T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T08:18:41","slug":"several-feared-dead-as-vehicle-loaded-with-explosives-blows-up-near-parliament-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/several-feared-dead-as-vehicle-loaded-with-explosives-blows-up-near-parliament-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Casualties feared in car bomb blast in Somali capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu (SONNA)-Several people are feared dead after a huge car bomb blast targeted a security checkpoint near the Somali parliament headquarters in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An explosive-laden vehicle passed through a security checkpoint causing security forces to open fire and the vehicle exploded close to another checkpoint at the Sayidka junction, according to local media and police sources.<\/p>\n<p>Somali police spokesman Sadaq Adan Ali confirmed the car bomb blast to Anadolu Agency over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police, other security forces, and paramedics reached the scene and the road leading to the presidential palace were closed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not know yet the number of casualties from the car bomb blast but the police started an investigation,&#8221; the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but Somali-based al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group al-Shabaab carried out recent attacks in the Horn of African country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu (SONNA)-Several people are feared dead after a huge car bomb blast targeted a security checkpoint near the Somali parliament headquarters in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said. An explosive-laden vehicle passed through a security checkpoint causing security forces to open fire and the vehicle exploded close to another checkpoint at the Sayidka junction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402880,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402877\/revisions\/402880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}