{"id":79987,"date":"2015-01-07T06:29:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T06:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79987"},"modified":"2015-01-07T06:29:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T06:29:20","slug":"deadly-blast-hits-yemen-capital-sanaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=79987","title":{"rendered":"Deadly blast hits Yemen capital Sanaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Dozens of people have been killed or injured in a blast outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, security sources say.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said a car bomb had been detonated near a crowd of students, but this could not be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the blast was heard across the city and a large plume of smoke was seen.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen has been unstable since protests in 2011 forced then-President Ali Abdallah Saleh from office.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs on social media purporting to be of the scene of the blast showed the wreckage of a vehicle and bodies lying on a pavement.<\/p>\n<p>No group has so far said it carried out the attack in Sanaa on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Islamic militants belonging to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have staged an increasing number of bombings and shootings across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The insurgents have also seized parts of the country&#8217;s south and east.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption body-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/80102000\/png\/_80102135_yemensanaa4640714.png\" alt=\"Map locator\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption body-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/75306000\/jpg\/_75306515_line976.jpg\" alt=\"line\" width=\"464\" height=\"2\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption body-width\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption body-width\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption body-width\">Source: BBC<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people have been killed or injured in a blast outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, security sources say. Reports said a car bomb had been detonated near a crowd of students, but this could not be confirmed. Witnesses said the blast was heard across the city and a large plume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":79988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-79987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}