{"id":182148,"date":"2022-08-20T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T09:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182148"},"modified":"2022-08-20T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T09:14:43","slug":"at-least-12-killed-in-somalia-hotel-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/at-least-12-killed-in-somalia-hotel-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 12 killed in Somalia hotel siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182149\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022820637965572520350416.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022820637965572520350416.jpeg 660w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022820637965572520350416-300x185.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022820637965572520350416-356x220.jpeg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least 12 people have been killed in Somalia\u2019s capital Mogadishu after Al-Shabab militants attacked a hotel leading to a siege that authorities are still trying to end, an intelligence officer told Reuters on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe attackers struck the Hayat Hotel on Friday evening with two car bombs, before entering the facility while firing their guns and seizing control.<br \/>\n\u201cSo far we have confirmed 12 people, mostly civilians, died,\u201d Mohammed, an intelligence officer who only gave one name, told Reuters \u201cThe operation is about to be concluded but it is still going on.\u201d<br \/>\nSounds of explosions punctuated the night as government forces tried to wrest control of the hotel back from the militants, witnesses said.<br \/>\nLarge sections of the hotel were destroyed by the fighting, they said.<br \/>\nThe Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab group claimed responsibility for the attack, according to a translation by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist group statements.<br \/>\nAl Shabab has been fighting to topple the Somali government for more than 10 years. It wants to establish its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law.<br \/>\nThe Hayat Hotel is a popular venue with lawmakers and other government officials but there was no immediate information if any of them had been caught up in the siege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people have been killed in Somalia\u2019s capital Mogadishu after Al-Shabab militants attacked a hotel leading to a siege that authorities are still trying to end, an intelligence officer told Reuters on Saturday. The attackers struck the Hayat Hotel on Friday evening with two car bombs, before entering the facility while firing their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182150,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182148\/revisions\/182150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}