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| Gunmen killed after Mogadishu attack left 14 dead: Ministry |
| 2017-10-30 |
| [AlAhram] Somalia's security ministry said Sunday that forces had killed two button men and captured three after a siege at a Mogadishu hotel following a twin boom-mobileing that left at least 14 dead. Spokesman Abdiasiz Ali Ibrahim said a number of people had been rescued from Shabaab button men at the Nasa Hablod Hotel 2. The attack began when a boom-mobile went kaboom!outside the hotel entrance, followed by a minibus loaded with explosives going off at a nearby intersection. "Five button men stormed the building, two of them were killed and the rest captured alive. The security forces are still working on retrieving the casualties, we don't have exact number of the casualties so far," the front man told news hounds. Another security official Mohammed Moalim Adan had put the corpse count at 14, "most of them civilians", as the operation was still ongoing Saturday night. One senior police official and a former MP were among the dead. The al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab claimed the bombing and hotel assault in a statement on its Andalus radio station. "The Mujahedeen fighters are inside Nasa Hablod 2 hotel where... apostate officials are staying," said the brief statement. The hotel is popular among government officials, several of whom were rescued by the security forces. |
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