{"id":4621,"date":"2015-06-22T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2015-06-22T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T09:30:26","slug":"somalia-jihadists-al-shabab-launch-mogadishu-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/06\/22\/somalia-jihadists-al-shabab-launch-mogadishu-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia jihadists al-Shabab launch Mogadishu attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Somali jihadist group al-Shabab has carried out an attack in the country&#8217;s capital Mogadishu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a training centre for the national intelligence agency on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials said that soldiers &#8220;foiled the attack&#8221; and at least three militants died.<\/p>\n<p>The militants have vowed to intensify attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab claims to have killed several intelligence officers inside the building, something the government denies.<\/p>\n<p>After the suicide bomb was detonated outside the training centre, gunmen reportedly stormed a civilian house that they had mistaken for the government facility.<\/p>\n<p>Interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Yusuf said security forces had successfully repulsed the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were trying to storm the premises but they have been taken out before they reached their objective. There was no casualty on our side,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Bodies of al-Shabab militants were shown to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses described how the fighting started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a heavy explosion and in seconds heavy gunfire broke out. We cannot go outside the house because of the shooting,&#8221; local resident Abdulahi Yare told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Security in the country has improved but al-Shabab still attacks Mogadishu regularly. The group has targeted the intelligence headquarters before.<\/p>\n<p>Various armed groups have been battling for control of Somalia since the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>In April, al-Shabab militants launched an assault across the border in Kenya on a university in the north-eastern town of Garissa.<\/p>\n<p>The attack killed 148 people in what was the deadliest ever attack by the group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Somali jihadist group al-Shabab has carried out an attack in the country&#8217;s capital Mogadishu. A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a training centre for the national intelligence agency on Sunday morning. Government officials said that soldiers &#8220;foiled the attack&#8221; and at least three militants died. The militants have vowed to intensify attacks during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}