{"id":6357,"date":"2016-06-30T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T08:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2016-06-30T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T08:08:51","slug":"bus-bomb-leaves-20-dead-near-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/bus-bomb-leaves-20-dead-near-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus bomb leaves 20 dead near Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A roadside bomb hit a passenger minibus near the<br \/>\nSomali capital Mogadishu early Thursday, with witnesses putting the<br \/>\ndeath toll at 15.<\/p>\n<p>Police officer Nur Hassan was unable to confirm the number, but said<br \/>\nthat &#8220;many bodies, including women, were scattered on the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said at least seven people were injured. The bus, which was<br \/>\nsplit into two, was believed to have carried 22 people.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known who carried out the attack. The Islamist<br \/>\ngroup al-Shabaab has often targeted military vehicles on the same<br \/>\nroad, located south of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/somalia\/\">Somalia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roadside bomb hit a passenger minibus near the Somali capital Mogadishu early Thursday, with witnesses putting the death toll at 15. Police officer Nur Hassan was unable to confirm the number, but said that &#8220;many bodies, including women, were scattered on the road.&#8221; Witnesses said at least seven people were injured. The bus, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[258,256,570,499,357,2018,5314,4815,449,257,5313,5310,5311,5308,5307,5309,5303,4690,5312,254],"class_list":["post-6357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-shabaab","tag-al-shabab","tag-islamist","tag-islamist-group","tag-islamist-group-al-shabab","tag-islamist-group-al-shabaab","tag-mogadishu","tag-news","tag-nur-hassan","tag-roadside-bomb","tag-roadside-bomb-somalia","tag-s-a-today","tag-sa-today","tag-sat","tag-somali-capital-mogadishu","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-bomb","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}