MOGADISHU — The death toll from Tuesday’s car bomb attack targeting two hotels popular with officials near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 22, police said on Wednesday.The attack was claimed by the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab. The blast partially destroyed two hotels, including one in which a meeting of security officials was under way, the government has said.READ THIS: The terror never stops in the war on terror"We have confirmed from various hospitals that at least 22 died and 50 others were wounded," police officer Maj Mohamed Abdullahi said.Information minister Mohamed Abdi Hayir said on Tuesday that security officials were gathered inside one of the hotels, the SYL, at the time of blast, and that one minister and some state radio journalists were wounded.The hotel is frequented by government officials and police said it believed the facility was the likely target.Seeking to impose its own harsh form of Islam, al-Shabaab wants to to...
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