MOGADISHU: Militants stormed a high-end seaside hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday , killing at least seven people and injuring more than 20, in the second attack by Islamist insurgents on a highly fortified target in the Somali capital this week.
"There were officials of government inside the hotel when we attacked," said a statement broadcast on al Shabaab's Radio Andalus. A witness, Ahmed Ali, said on Sunday he had heard"a huge blast at the hotel, gunfire followed, and then clouds of smoke"."So far we confirmed seven people died, including two attackers, two junior directors and three civilians," information ministry spokesman Ismail Mukhtar Omar told Reuters.Aamin ambulance service head Abdikadir Abdirahman had earlier told Reuters the service had transported 28 injured people from the scene before exchanges of gunfire started.
Mohamed Nur, a government worker who lives near Lido beach, said government security forces had been deployed to stop the attack."The exchange of gunfire is terrible and stray bullets reached us near the beach," he added.
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