{"id":3154,"date":"2015-11-01T16:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2015-11-01T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T17:18:37","slug":"15-killed-as-militants-attack-popular-hotel-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/15-killed-as-militants-attack-popular-hotel-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"15 killed as militants attack popular hotel in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MOGADISHU (Somalia) &#8211;\u00a0Gunmen stormed a popular hotel in the heart of Mogadishu, <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about Somalia.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/somalia\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Somalia<\/a>\u2019s capital, on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, Somali officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The militants first \u00a0blew up the front gate with a car bomb, shooting guests and hotel workers, and then battling with security forces from the hotel\u2019s rooftop for several hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 15 people were killed, medical and police officials said. Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate, claimed responsibility for the attack via a Somali radio station run by the group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been reported that the attack on the Sahafi Hotel was immediately\u00a0claimed to by the Shabaab militant group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201dMujahedeen entered and took over Sahafi hotel where enemies lived,\u201d Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, the Shabaab\u2019s military operations spokesman, told Reuters on Sunday, using a common term for Islamic guerrilla fighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU (Somalia) &#8211;\u00a0Gunmen stormed a popular hotel in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia\u2019s capital, on Sunday, killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[355,214,15,83,11],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","tag-africa","tag-bombing","tag-militants","tag-somalia","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/somalia-hotel-attack.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-OS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}