Somalia police report blast, gunfire at Mogadishu hotel

There was no instant phrase on casualties from the assault which shattered a interval of calm of some months following a spate of bomb assaults earlier this 12 months. Somalia’s homegrown Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, who’re allied to al-Qaida, typically perform such assaults within the nation’s capital.

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