{"id":122159,"date":"2021-05-10T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122159"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:18:22","slug":"deadly-suicide-attack-targetting-police-station-in-somali-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122159","title":{"rendered":"Deadly suicide attack targetting police station in Somali capital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/suma.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/suma.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MOGADISHU, May 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A suicide bomber killed at least six people and wounded six more in a massive blast at a police station in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Sunday evening, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack targeted the station at Waberi, in the south of the city, on the busy Maka Al-Mukaram road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe blast was so huge that it destroyed parts of the building,\u201d Somali police commander Ibrahim Mohamed, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somali police spokesman Sadik Dudishe said: \u201cSix people, four of them civilians and two police officials, died in a suicide attack targeting a police station.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the victims was the police commissioner at the station, who they believed had been the target of the attack, he added. Another six people were wounded, said Dudishe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was shocked inside my vehicle amid the blast,\u201d said Hassan Mohamed, who was at the scene. \u201cI saw several people lying in the road.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police temporarily closed off the busy road, said witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the Al-Shabaab group has not yet claimed the attack, the militants who are linked to Al-Qaeda regularly carry out attacks in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Shabaab has been fighting to overthrow Somalia\u2019s federal government since 2007 and launches regular attacks against government and civilian targets. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, May 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A suicide bomber killed at least six people and wounded six more in a massive blast at a police station in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Sunday evening, police said. The attack targeted the station at Waberi, in the south of the city, on the busy Maka Al-Mukaram road. \u201cThe blast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":122161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}