{"id":224839,"date":"2023-09-25T00:08:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=224839"},"modified":"2023-09-25T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:38:25","slug":"the-death-toll-from-a-truck-bomb-at-a-checkpoint-in-somalia-rises-to-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/the-death-toll-from-a-truck-bomb-at-a-checkpoint-in-somalia-rises-to-21\/","title":{"rendered":"The death toll from a truck bomb at  a checkpoint in Somalia rises to 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MOGADISHU, Somalia, 24 Sep: The death toll from a bombing attack at a government checkpoint in central Somalia has reached 21, authorities said Sunday.<br \/>\nThe number of wounded in Saturday\u2019s truck bombing in Beledweyne stood at 52, said Abdifatah Mohamed Yusuf, director general of the Hirshabelle ministry of humanitarian and disaster management.<br \/>\nHe told The Associated Press that 17 of those critically wounded were airlifted to the capital, Mogadishu, for treatment.<br \/>\nThere has been no immediate claim of responsibility. East Africa\u2019s al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabab often carries out such attacks in Somalia.<br \/>\nBeledweyne has been the staging point for the Somali government\u2019s ongoing military offensive against the extremists, who control parts of central and southern Somalia. AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia, 24 Sep: The death toll from a bombing attack at a government checkpoint in central Somalia has reached 21, authorities said Sunday. The number of wounded in Saturday\u2019s truck bombing in Beledweyne stood at 52, said Abdifatah Mohamed Yusuf, director general of the Hirshabelle ministry of humanitarian and disaster management. He told The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}