AL-SHABAAB ATTACK
Al-Shabaab Islamists target Somali hotel
The Islamist insurgent group claims responsibility for car bomb attack on Wehliye Hotel in Mogadishu
Mogadishu — A car bomb near a hotel on a busy street in the Somali capital killed at least 13 people on Monday, police and the emergency medical services said, hours after a man was killed by a blast as he tried to ram through a checkpoint. Police said the blast damaged a house, but did not destroy its target, the Wehliye Hotel in Mogadishu. "We have carried 13 dead people and 14 others are injured. The death toll may rise further," said Abdikadir Abdirahman, director of aid-funded Aamin Ambulance services. A spokesman for Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. "We were behind the Maka al-Mukaram street blast. "We killed 17 people including senior officials of military and security and former legislators," said Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab’s military operation spokesman told Reuters by phone. Earlier on Monday, police shot at a minibus in Mogadishu when the driver refused to stop as it approached a checkpoint. The minibus exploded,...
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