Somali hotel bomb attack leaves 26 dead, 52 injured

Somali hotel bomb attack leaves 26 dead, 52 injured

Foreigners are also among those dead while the death toll rises after a hotel Somalia was bombed by Al-Shabaab militants.

People at the scene of an attack by Al-Shabaab in November last year in Mogadishu. (AFP pic)
MOGADISHU:
At least 26 people, including many foreigners, were killed and 56 injured in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al-Shabaab militants on a popular hotel in southern Somalia, a top regional official said Saturday.

“Twenty-six people were killed in the attack and fifty-six others wounded, among those killed are… foreign nationals, three Kenyans, one Canadian, one British, two Americans, and three Tanzanians. There are also two wounded Chinese citizens,” regional president Ahmed Mohamed Islam told a news conference.

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