A car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia's port city of Kismayu ...
MOGADISHU - A car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers had been discussing an upcoming regional election and was followed by gunfire, police said, adding that the death toll could be high.
“... but we believe the militants are still in the building. We have not confirmed the death toll, but there were many people inside, and there may be a high death toll,” police captain Abdullahi Isak told Reuters by phone. “First we targeted with a suicide car bomb and then armed mujahideen stormed the hotel. We are still fighting inside the hotel,” he said.Hussein Nur, a shopkeeper in Kismayu, told Reuters: “There were many people including officials and elders, mostly from one clan, who were discussing the coming Kismayu election.”Somali Journalists Syndicate said in a statement that two journalists based in Kismayu had been confirmed dead in the attack.
Al Shabaab was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been driven from most of its other strongholds.
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