Somalia car bomb, shooting hits Kismayu hotel, nine dead

2022-10-24

Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for a similar style attack on Kismayo's Medina hotel in 2019 (AFP file photo)

Somalia car bomb, shooting hits Kismayu hotel, nine dead

A car bomb and shooting attack on a hotel in the Somali city of Kismayu killed nine people on Sunday before security forces ended the siege at the hotel and killed the attackers, a regional official said.

Gunfire erupted after an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into the gate of the port city's Tawakal Hotel. The al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group said it had carried out the attack.

"In the explosion, nine people including students and civilians were killed and 47 others were injured, some of them seriously," Yussuf Hussein Dhumal, Security Minister for Jubbaland, told Reuters.

source:https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/car-explosion-gunfire-hit-hotel-somalias-kismayu-port-city-police-say-2022-10-23/