10 people were killed in an Al-Shabaab attack on a beachfront hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, a government spokesman says. All four attackers were killed.
"#Somali special forces end a 4 hours-long deadly siege at Elite hotel in #Mogadushu after killing the last attacker," Ismail Mukhtar said on Twitter late Sunday.Mukhtar and police said four attackers were involved in the assault. He put the death toll at 10, including a solider and two officials with the information and defense ministries. Dozens of others have been wounded, hospital sources said. Mukhtar said 205 people had been rescued after troops ended the siege at 10 p.m.
The owner of the hotel, lawmaker Abdullahi Mohamed Nur, said after the siege ended that he was among those freed.Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo issued a statement condemning the"heinous and cowardly" terrorist attack. "The main purpose of the ambush attacks by the terrorists is to discourage the Somali people who are recovering from difficult circumstances," he said."It is a fact that their plan is to harm every Somali through some misguided Somali youth.
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