After a thriller lasting about 30 hours, “the security forces have now ended the siege and the gunmen are dead.
The end of the hostage situation in the Hayat hotel in Mogadishu, where fighters of the Shebab jihadist organization invaded on Friday, the Somali authorities announced, as reported by the French Agency (AFP).
As of right now, a battle is going on in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital.
Al-Shabab militants storm the Hayat hotel, where the head of intelligence Muhudin Warbak is located.#Somali pic.twitter.com/2dJJuVZFjD
— 301 Military (@301military) August 19, 2022
After a thriller lasting about 30 hours, “the security forces have now ended the siege and the gunmen are dead. We haven’t had any fire from the building in the last hour,” a Somali official told AFP on condition of anonymity. He added that the government will hold a press conference on this bloody attack on Sunday morning.
According to unconfirmed information, the dead are about 40. Earlier, the Reuters agency, citing a former official of the intelligence services of Somalia, had reported that there were at least 12 dead.
At least 12 people were killed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu after al Qaeda-linked militants attacked a hotel. The attackers are holding an unknown number of hostages https://t.co/E9mMGulhNu pic.twitter.com/dtT2ySBGig
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 20, 2022
Friday’s attack was the first large-scale attack in Somalia since the country’s new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, took office in May. Responsibility was claimed by the Shabaab organization, which has been trying for more than 10 years to overthrow the government and establish a state based on Islamic law, sharia.
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