{"id":62721,"date":"2019-06-02T10:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62721"},"modified":"2019-06-02T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:03:07","slug":"18-hurt-as-two-car-blasts-target-libya-military-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/18-hurt-as-two-car-blasts-target-libya-military-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"18 hurt as two car blasts target Libya military unit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At least 18 people were wounded in two car bomb explosions that targeted a military unit in Libya\u2019s eastern coastal city of Derna, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky, a medical source and residents told Reuters early on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents said the car bombs targeted a military unit called Bulahati belonging to the eastern forces of the Libyan National Army in the city centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe heard the first explosion, but we thought it was fireworks, then we heard the second,\u201d one resident told Reuters by telephone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe found people around the Bulahati military unit and there was huge black smoke in the sky,\u201d another added. \u201cWe then discovered it was car bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Derna, once a jihadist bastion, is about 292 km distant from Libya\u2019s second city, Benghazi, and was declared to be under the complete control of Khalifa Haftar\u2019s LNA in June 2018.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 people were wounded in two car bomb explosions that targeted a military unit in Libya\u2019s eastern coastal city of Derna, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky, a medical source and residents told Reuters early on Sunday. Residents said the car bombs targeted a military unit called Bulahati belonging to the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62723,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721\/revisions\/62723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}