{"id":7798,"date":"2023-06-10T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2023-06-10T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T13:13:46","slug":"six-civilians-killed-in-somalia-hotel-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2023\/06\/10\/six-civilians-killed-in-somalia-hotel-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Six civilians killed in Somalia hotel siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia\u2019s capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have been waging an insurgency against the internationally backed federal government for more than 15 years and have often targeted hotels, which tend to host high-ranking Somali and foreign officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix civilians were martyred in the attack&#8230; and 10 others were wounded. Three brave members of the security forces were martyred during the rescue operation,\u201d the Somali Police Force said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The assault, for which Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility, began just before 8 pm on Friday when seven attackers stormed the Pearl Beach hotel, a popular spot at Lido Beach along Mogadishu\u2019s coastline.<\/p>\n<p>It ended at around 2 am, police said, after a fierce gunfight between security forces and the militants, all of whom were killed during the battle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adv-img text-center d-print-none\">\u201cThe security forces managed to rescue 84 people including women and children and elderly people,\u201d the police statement added.<em> _Agencies<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia\u2019s capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday. The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have been waging an insurgency against the internationally backed federal government for more than 15 years and have often targeted hotels, which tend to host high-ranking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7800,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions\/7800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}