{"id":6466,"date":"2019-07-13T10:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2019-07-13T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T11:21:20","slug":"somalia-hotel-attack-several-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6466","title":{"rendered":"Somalia hotel attack: 26l dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 26 people have been killed in an attack on a hotel in southern Somalia, including Canadian-Somali TV Jouranlist Hodan Nalayeh, reports say.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6468\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/repoter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/repoter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian-Somali TV journalist Hodan Nalayeh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to authorities, a suicide bomber rammed a car containing explosives into the hotel in the port of Kismayo, and gunmen then stormed the building.<\/p>\n<p>A security official said &#8220;We have confirmed the death of several people including a former local administration minister and a lawmaker. The toll may increase since the attack is not over yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regional politicians and clan elders were inside the hotel discussing an upcoming regional election at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The attack is the latest in a long line of bombing and assaults claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 26 people have been killed in an attack on a hotel in southern Somalia, including Canadian-Somali TV Jouranlist Hodan Nalayeh, reports say. According to authorities, a suicide bomber rammed a car containing explosives into the hotel in the port of Kismayo, and gunmen then stormed the building. A security official said &#8220;We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466","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=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}