In Mogadishu are at least 20 people in an attack on a Hotel killed. Security forces and attackers fought battles hours long. Al-Shabaab claimed the fact.
In an attack in Mogadishu, and subsequent Fighting between security forces and terrorists, more than 20 people have been killed. Numerous people were injured. The attacker had gone into a building near the explosion point and had fired from there, security forces, and hand grenades thrown, said a police officer.
Still echoing gunshots and explosions around the city as a Reporter for the news Agency dpa reported. It is still unclear how many attackers were and whether all the attackers were ultimately killed.
Explosion
In the vicinity of a hotel which is used, among other things, of government representatives, it came out already on Thursday evening, a massive Explosion. A suicide bomber was involved in the attack, said the police officer. It is supposed to have one in a truck deposited the bomb acted. The Explosion had caused massive destruction to the surrounding shops. Official government statistics are not yet available.
The Islamist terrorist militia Al-Shabaab claimed the fact, for, as the jihadist Propaganda is a specialized Site Intelligence Group reported. Al-Shabaab perpetrated again and again, attacks in southern and Central Somalia. The Al-Qaeda affiliated fundamentalists fighting in the impoverished country in the Horn of Africa since the years of the supremacy.
The US military, and a troop of the African Union (AU) to support the Somali armed forces in the fight against Al-Shabaab. The U.S. armed forces to fly again and again – mostly unmanned aerial attacks against the terrorist group. Under President Donald Trump, the number of air strikes has increased significantly.
