{"id":1246,"date":"2015-04-14T18:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2015-04-14T18:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:59:51","slug":"somali-shebab-kill-15-in-education-ministry-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/04\/14\/somali-shebab-kill-15-in-education-ministry-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Shebab kill 15 in education ministry attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia&#8217;s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants on Tuesday blasted their way into the higher education ministry with a car bomb before storming the building, killing 15 people.<br \/>\nPolice and witnesses said the car bomb caused a huge explosion which allowed the gunmen to force their way into the fortified building.<br \/>\nAmbulance officials said at least 15 people were killed and 20 wounded in the attack.<br \/>\nSix Shebab gunmen were also killed, with two of those blowing themselves up, internal security ministry spokesman Mohamed Yusuf Osman said.<br \/>\nAbdukadir Abdirahman Adan, head of Mogadishu&#8217;s Ambulance Services, told reporters his crews had taken about 15 dead bodies and 20 wounded civilians to hospital.<br \/>\nTroops backed by African Union soldiers regained control of the building after around an hour-long attack, which began when &#8220;a car loaded with explosives rammed the gate,&#8221; police officer Mohamed Dahir said<br \/>\n&#8220;The security forces and AU peacekeepers shot and killed four of the attackers, while the other two blew up themselves,&#8221; Osman told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia&#8217;s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants on Tuesday blasted their way into the higher education ministry with a car bomb before storming the building, killing 15 people. Police and witnesses said the car bomb caused a huge explosion which allowed the gunmen to force their way into the fortified building. Ambulance officials said at least 15 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}