Jihadists stormed the popular Hayat hotel on Friday night in an exchange of gunfire and explosions with security forces.
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At least eight civilians were killed in clashes between radical Al-Shabaab Islamists who attacked a Mogadishu hotel in the Somali capital on Friday and security forces attempting to neutralize them, a security official said on Saturday (August 20th). Somali.
The jihadists stormed the popular Hayat hotel on Friday night, in an exchange of gunfire and explosions. “Security forces rescued dozens of civilians, including children, who were trapped in the building”, said a Somali security official. The attackers were still holed up in the hotel early Saturday, with sporadic gunfire and loud explosions heard in the area.
An Islamist group linked to Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, which has been engaged in an insurrection against the Somali federal government for 15 years, has claimed responsibility for the attack.