MOGADISHU: The Somali militants Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Sunday, driving a car packed with explosives through the hotel gate and killed at least 13 people, a first responder and the rebel group said.
According to the reports, blood and pieces of flesh were spattered around the site of the blast targeting the Jazeera hotel. Nearby was the wreckage of four cars.
The 13 dead people and 21 others who were injured, some seriously,” an ambulance worker Abdikadir Abdirahman told.
A police officer, Major Nur Osoble, told Reuters a suicide car bomb had rammed the gates of the hotel, damaging the facade.
