Five people have been killed in an Al-Shabaab attack in SomaliaThe five were killed after a car bomb was detonated at the entrance of a
At least five people, including a prominent former general, were killed in an hours-long Al-Shabaab attack on a Mogadishu hotel, which ended around midnight on Sunday, Somali police said. The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the Hotel Afrik at a busy junction near the airport before gunmen stormed the hotel, exchanging fire with security personnel. Somali police spokesman Sadik Dudishe told a press conference that four attackers had also died. « Among the dead are five civilians and the gunmen – three of them shot and another who detonated himself. The death toll can be higher and some of the wounded people may succumb. » He said 10 people had been injured. The information ministry said in a statement that one of the fatalities was a well-known retired general, Mohamed Nur Galal.
