{"id":26491,"date":"2017-04-10T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=26491"},"modified":"2017-04-10T07:30:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:30:33","slug":"car-blast-kills-government-official-somali-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/car-blast-kills-government-official-somali-capital.html","title":{"rendered":"Car blast kills government official in Somali capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Car blast kills government official in Somali capital<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Car blast kills government official in Somali capital:- A government official was killed by a bomb planted in his car in Somalia&#39;s capital on Monday, officials said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, but Islamist militant group al Shabaab has stepped up bomb attacks in Mogadishu to challenge a new government.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;The car bomb killed a junior government worker,&quot; the spokesman for Mogadishu&#39;s mayor, Abdifatah Omar Halane, said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">An al Shabaab car bomb outside Mogadishu&#39;s army base killed at least 15 people on Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Later on Sunday, government forces exchanged friendly fire for at least 15 minutes at the military base.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&ldquo;National security forces were carrying out operation around the military base and accidentally they exchanged fire,&rdquo; Abdikadir Hussein, a police officer told Reuters on Monday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-somalia-security-blast-idUSKBN17C0JV?il=0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/car-blast-kills-government-official-somali-capital.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car blast kills government official in Somali capital Car blast kills government official in Somali capital:- A government official was killed by a bomb planted in his car in Somalia&#39;s capital on Monday, officials said. 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