{"id":408584,"date":"2021-12-26T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=408584"},"modified":"2021-12-26T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T03:00:06","slug":"at-least-6-dead-in-a-suicide-attack-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/at-least-6-dead-in-a-suicide-attack-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 6 dead in a suicide attack in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bomber attacked a restaurant and bar Saturday as patrons gathered on Christmas Day, killing at least six others in an eastern Congolese town where Islamic extremists are known to be active.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy gunfire rang out shortly after the bomb went off, with panicked crowds fleeing the town<span class=\"typographizer-debug typographizer-debug--apostrophe\">\u2019<\/span>s center.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday<span class=\"typographizer-debug typographizer-debug--apostrophe\">\u2019<\/span>s attack marked the first known time that a suicide bomber has killed victims in eastern Congo, where an Islamic State group affiliate earlier this year took responsibility for a suicide bombing near another bar in Beni who had caused no other casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The latest violence only deepens fear that religious extremism has taken hold in a region already plagued for years by rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, spokesperson for the governor of North Kivu, said that security guards had blocked the bomber from entering the crowded bar and so the person instead detonated the explosives at the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on people to remain vigilant and to avoid crowded areas during the holiday season,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cIn the city and territory of Beni, it is difficult, in these times to know who is who.<span class=\"typographizer-debug typographizer-debug--closing-double\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bomber attacked a restaurant and bar Saturday as patrons gathered on Christmas Day, killing at least six others in an eastern Congolese town where Islamic extremists are known to be active. Heavy gunfire rang out shortly after the bomb went off, with panicked crowds fleeing the town\u2019s center. Saturday\u2019s attack marked the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":408585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-408584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408584","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408586,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408584\/revisions\/408586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}