{"id":18522,"date":"2017-03-01T00:45:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/franciswhittaker\/lawmakers-inside-luxury-somali-hotel-under-attack-fatalities"},"modified":"2017-03-01T00:45:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:45:45","slug":"at-least-10-killed-in-twin-bombings-at-luxury-somalia-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/18522","title":{"rendered":"At Least 10 Killed In Twin Bombings At Luxury Somalia Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Smoke and steam from fires extinguished with water, clouds the scene of the bombing attack in Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Feb. 20. <\/span> Farah Abdi Warsameh \/ AP<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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Lawmaker Omar Ali and Mogadishu Deputy Mayor Mohamed Aden were among those who died in a multi-pronged suicide attack during a meeting of government officials in a luxury hotel in the center of Somalia’s capital on Friday, according to one lawmaker and police.<\/p>\n

“We can confirm that more than 10 persons, including politicians and soldiers were killed in that horrific attack,” Capt. Mohamed Hussein, a senior Somali police officer, told the Associated Press. <\/p>\n

There were many other government officials inside the Central Hotel when Somali Islamists launched the attack, officials said. <\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Mohamed Omar Arte was injured and hospitalized along with several other high-ranking government officials, police Capt. Mohammed Hussein told the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police major Nur Muhamed told Reuters:<\/a> “There were ministers and legislators inside the hotel. I have seen many people with injuries, including a lawmaker.”<\/p>\n

Hussein said<\/a> that a car bomb exploded outside the city’s Central Hotel, and then gunfire was heard as the attackers apparently stormed the building along with a suicide bomber.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for militant group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told Reuters<\/a>: “We are behind the attack. We targeted government officials in the hotel, this is part of our operation in Mogadishu.”<\/p>\n

As Al Jazeera reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Friday’s assault was the second on a hotel in Mogadishu in less than a month. On January 22, three Somali nationals were killed when a suicide car bomber blew himself up at the gate of a hotel housing the advance party of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who visited the country days later. <\/p>\n

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Al-Shabab controlled much of Mogadishu during the years 2007 to 2011, but was pushed out of Somalia’s capital and other major cities by the AU forces.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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Somali security forces gather outside the scene of the twin bombing attack on a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Feb. 20. <\/span> Farah Abdi Warsameh \/ AP<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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#Somalia Central Mogadishu hotel is popular with members of Somali parliament mainly those from the north.<\/p>\t\t— DalsanFM_SOM (@Dalsan Radio)\t\t<\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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Somali rescuers carry away the dead body of a civilian from the scene of the twin bombing attack. <\/span> Farah Abdi Warsameh \/ AP<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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This Picture shows you that the car exploded inside the hotel when the MPs,Ministers were leaving the Hotel #Somalia<\/p>\t\t— MogadishuNews (@Mogadishu News)\t\t<\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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This statement is from the official account of the Somali presidential palace:<\/h2>\t\t
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HE the President of #Somalia: ‘attacking lawmakers and citizens just after Friday prayers: #AlShabaab are un-Islamic and anti-democracy’<\/p>\t\t— TheVillaSomalia (@Villa Somalia)\t\t<\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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HE the President of #Somalia : immediate thoughts are with those hurt in today’s #AlShabaab outrage in #Mogadishu<\/p>\t\t— TheVillaSomalia (@Villa Somalia)\t\t<\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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HE the President of #Somalia condemns #AlShabaab attack on Central Hotel in #Mogadishu Emergency services and security forces responding<\/p>\t\t— TheVillaSomalia (@Villa Somalia)\t\t<\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>

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