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At least seven dead in Al-Shabaab attack on popular Somali hotel
[ 27 March 2015 19:23 ]
Baku – APA. At least seven people were killed on Friday when gunmen from the Islamist Al-Shabaab group stormed a popular hotel in the center of the Somali capital, police and the militants said, APA reported citing Reuters.
“We are behind the Hotel Maka Al-Mukaram attack and fighting is still going on inside the hotel,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, Al-Shabaab’s military operations spokesman, told Reuters.
Captain Ali Hussein, a police officer, said at least seven people had been killed and a dozen wounded in the attack. “Death toll is sure to rise,” he said.