At least 23 Dead after Suicide Bombing & Hotel Siege in Mogadishu
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23 people have been reported dead with another 30 injured in a suicide bombing and hotel siege in the Mogadishu, Somalia.
According to Guardian, gunmen in military uniforms stormed a hotel in Mogadishu after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a vehicle at the hotel’s entrance.
Security forces eventually gained control of the hotel after a night long battle, killing 3 gunmen and capturing 2..
Capt. Mohamed Hussein said out of the dead was a mother and her 3 children, all shot in the head, and a senior Somali police colonel, a former lawmaker and a former government minister.
The terrorist group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack.
A witness who survived the bombing, escaping with small injuries to his shoulder and skull said he saw at least 3 armed men in military uniforms running toward the hotel after the suicide bombing. “I think they were al-Shabaab fighters who were trying to storm the hotel,” he said.
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