{"id":11839,"date":"2019-11-16T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T05:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2019-11-16T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T05:47:47","slug":"bomb-attack-hits-iraqs-tahrir-square-amid-anti-government-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/11839","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Attack Hits Iraq\u2019s Tahrir Square Amid Anti-Government Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people were killed and around 30 others suffered injuries when a bomb placed under a vehicle detonated near Tahrir Square in downtown Baghdad, amid anti-government protests ongoing\u00a0 \u00a0since earlier last month.<\/p>\n<p>The blast, which happened at night, targeted a crowded area in al-Tayaran Square, the epicenter of protests, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.<\/p>\n<p>and some neighbouring provinces converged at the nearby al-Tahrir Square to participate in the demonstrations that have been taking place there for several weeks, demanding comprehensive reform, accountability for corruption, improvement of public services and job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>However, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iraq&#8217;s High Commission for Human Rights, at least 325 Iraqis have been killed and 15,000 injured since the protests began October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people were killed and around 30 others suffered injuries when a bomb placed under a vehicle detonated near Tahrir Square in downtown Baghdad, amid anti-government protests ongoing\u00a0 \u00a0since earlier last month. The blast, which happened at night, targeted a crowded area in al-Tayaran Square, the epicenter of protests, according to an Iraqi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11841,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions\/11841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}