{"id":2454,"date":"2014-12-04T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2014-12-04T19:40:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:40:59","slug":"deadly-blasts-rock-baghdads-shia-areas-middle-east-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2454","title":{"rendered":"Deadly blasts rock Baghdad&#8217;s Shia areas &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2014\/12\/deadly-twin-blasts-rock-baghdad-shia-area-2014124162810821316.html\">Deadly blasts rock Baghdad&#8217;s Shia areas &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least 16 people have been killed in two car bombs that went off in the Sadr district of Iraq&#8217;s capital Baghdad, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The blasts happened at around 6:30pm (15:30 GMT) on Thursday in two different parts of the district.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Jane Arraf, reporting from Baghdad, said: &#8220;One of the car bombs hit Sadr district&#8217;s small street\u00a0with small cafes there that were packed with people having dinner. The other one was at a crowded outdoor market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later on, a roadside bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad&#8217;s Shia northern neighbourhood of Shaab, killing three people and wounding 12 others, the AP news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Medical officials confirmed the casualties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly blasts rock Baghdad&#8217;s Shia areas &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English. At least 16 people have been killed in two car bombs that went off in the Sadr district of Iraq&#8217;s capital Baghdad, officials said. The blasts happened at around 6:30pm (15:30 GMT) on Thursday in two different parts of the district. Al [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,1632,1633,1634],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-baghdad","tag-roadside-bomb","tag-shia","tag-shiite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}