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.
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.