{"id":17379,"date":"2020-08-17T15:12:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=17379"},"modified":"2020-08-17T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:12:41","slug":"death-toll-from-somali-hotel-siege-rises-to-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/17\/death-toll-from-somali-hotel-siege-rises-to-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Toll From Somali Hotel Siege Rises To 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 17 people are now believed to have died following a siege at a beach-side hotel in Somalia&#8217;s capital Mogadishu that was ended by special forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than a dozen others were injured in the violence, which Somalia&#8217;s president has blamed on militant Islamist group, al-Shabab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly 200 people were rescued from the four-storey hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A government spokesperson had earlier put the death count at 11 people, in addition to five militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police say those killed in the attack included two government employees, three hotel security guards, four civilians and other unidentified victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Elite Hotel is located in a heavily protected area of Mogadishu and is popular with politicians, businesspeople, journalists and civil society activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people are now believed to have died following a siege at a beach-side hotel in Somalia&#8217;s capital Mogadishu that was ended by special forces. More than a dozen others were injured in the violence, which Somalia&#8217;s president has blamed on militant Islamist group, al-Shabab. Nearly 200 people were rescued from the four-storey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":17380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[1264,1298],"class_list":["post-17379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-mogadishu","tag-somali-hotel-siege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17381,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379\/revisions\/17381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}