3 Killed, 27 Injured After Terrorists Attack Hotel In Somalia's Mogadishu
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Armed fighters had stormed the SYL hotel in a hail of bullets late on Thursday before security forces announced Friday they had brought the situation under control after more than 13 hours.
Three people were killed in an hours-long siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a popular hotel near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said Friday.
Armed fighters had stormed the SYL hotel in a hail of bullets late on Thursday before security forces announced Friday they had brought the situation under control after more than 13 hours.
"Three people died in the attack and 27 others including 18 civilians and nine soldiers were wounded," Somali police spokesman Colonel Qasim Ahmed Roble told a press conference, adding that the injury toll included three lawmakers.
