{"id":5382,"date":"2017-10-15T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2017-10-15T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T17:20:13","slug":"more-than-230-killed-in-somalias-worst-ever-bomb-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/more-than-230-killed-in-somalias-worst-ever-bomb-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 230 killed in Somalia&#8217;s worst-ever bomb attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>More than 230 killed in massive truck bomb blast in Mogadishu, Somalia&#8217;s worst-ever bomb attack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death toll in Somalia&#8217;s worst-ever bomb attack rose to 231 with more than 275 injured, making it the deadliest single attack ever in this Horn of Africa nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is feared that the death toll will rise still further after Saturday\u2019s truck bomb, which targeted a well-known hotel on a busy street, devastating the area for hundreds of metres in every direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local media reported families gathering in the area on Sunday morning, looking for missing loved ones amid the ruins of one of the largest bombs ever to strike the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn our 10-year experience as the first responder in #Mogadishu, we haven\u2019t seen anything like this,\u201d the Aamin ambulance service tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Photos from the scene. In our 10 year experience as the first responder in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mogadishu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mogadishu<\/a>, we haven&#8217;t seen anything like this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cNxeDD86u6\">pic.twitter.com\/cNxeDD86u6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aamin Ambulance (@AaminAmbulance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaminAmbulance\/status\/919503074196156416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Many people were overwhelmed with grief. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing I can say. We have lost everything,\u201d said Zainab Sharif, a mother of four who lost her husband in the attack. She sat outside a hospital where he was pronounced dead after hours of efforts by doctors to save him from an arterial injury.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mohamed Yusuf, the director of the city\u2019s Medina hospital, said his staff had been \u201coverwhelmed by both dead and wounded\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really horrendous, unlike any other time in the past.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Mohamed Abdullahi &#8220;Farmajo&#8221; Mohamed has declared three days of mourning for the victims of the blast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s horrific attack proves our enemy would stop [at] nothing to cause our people pain and suffering. Let\u2019s unite against terror,\u201d he tweeted. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>More than 230 people have been killed in the most deadly bombing to hit <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Somalia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Somalia<\/a>, with hundreds more injured <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uvW5eLDGHi\">pic.twitter.com\/uvW5eLDGHi<\/a> \u2014 IRIA (@IRIA_Research) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IRIA_Research\/status\/919590211071471616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 230 killed in massive truck bomb blast in Mogadishu, Somalia&#8217;s worst-ever bomb attack The death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5383,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[355,214,75,113,83,11],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","tag-africa","tag-bombing","tag-conflict","tag-security","tag-somalia","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/somalia-explosion.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1oO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","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=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5384,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions\/5384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}