{"id":29671,"date":"2024-08-03T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=29671"},"modified":"2024-08-03T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:48:30","slug":"somalia-thirty-two-people-died-in-an-al-shabab-attack-on-a-beach-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/somalia-thirty-two-people-died-in-an-al-shabab-attack-on-a-beach-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Thirty-two People Died in an al-shabab Attack on a Beach Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police in Somalia said Saturday that 32 people died and 63 others were wounded in an attack on a beach hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, the previous evening.<br \/>\nAl-Qaida\u2019s East Africa affiliate, al-Shabab, said through its radio that its fighters carried out the attack.<br \/>\nPolice spokesperson Maj. Abdifatah Adan Hassan told journalists that one soldier was killed in the attack and that the rest were civilians. Another soldier was also wounded in the attack, Hassan said. Witnesses reported an explosion followed by gunfire.<br \/>\nLido Beach, a popular area in Mogadishu, is bustling on Friday nights as Somalis enjoy their weekend.<br \/>\nA witness, Mohamud Moalim, told The Associated Press that he saw an attacker wearing an explosive vest moments before the man \u201cblew himself up next to the beach-view hotel.\u201d<br \/>\nMoalim said some of his friends who were with him at the hotel were killed and others were wounded.<br \/>\nAnother witness, Abdisalam Adam, told the AP that he \u201csaw many people lying on the ground\u201d and had helped take some wounded people to the hospital.<br \/>\nIn a separate attack on Saturday, state media reported that seven people died after a passenger vehicle hit a roadside bomb some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the capital.<br \/>\nAl-Shabab still controls parts of southern and central Somalia and continues to carry out attacks in Mogadishu and other areas while extorting millions of dollars a year from residents and businesses in its quest to impose an Islamic state.<br \/>\nSomali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud last year declared a \u201ctotal war\u201d on the militants as the country starts taking charge of its own security.<br \/>\nThe Friday attack comes a month after Somalia started the third phase of the drawdown of peacekeeping troops under the African Union Transition Mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Police in Somalia said Saturday that 32 people died and 63 others were wounded in an attack on a beach hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, the previous evening. Al-Qaida\u2019s East Africa affiliate, al-Shabab, said through its radio that its fighters carried out the attack. Police spokesperson Maj. Abdifatah Adan Hassan told &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29673,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29671\/revisions\/29673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}