Al-Shabaab gunmen kill at least seven in attack on Mogadishu hotel

Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants launched a car bomb attack followed by an armed raid on a Mogadishu hotel yesterday, killing at least seven people and trapping government officials inside.

Somali security officers stand guard at the scene of a car bomb explosion in front of a hotel in Mogadishu. Photo: EPA

Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants launched a car bomb attack followed by an armed raid on a Mogadishu hotel yesterday, killing at least seven people and trapping government officials inside.

"There was an explosion outside and gunmen stormed the hotel. There is shooting inside. We don't know how many dead there are," police official Ahmed Abdi Fatah said.

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