Somali forces ended an attack launched by the terrorist group Al-Shabab on Friday on a hotel in Mogadishu and remained holed up in it for more than thirty hours, a security official announced around midnight on Saturday and Sunday.
The official said, requesting anonymity, that “the security forces have now ended the siege and the gunmen were killed, in the last hour, no shots were fired from the building in the last hour,” adding that the government will give a media briefing on Sunday morning about the bloody attack.
The death toll from the terrorist attack on the “Hyatt” hotel has risen to at least 19, according to the Somali police.
At least 40 people were wounded, some seriously, in the attack, which began on Friday evening.
The hotel manager said that security forces used heavy weapons such as mortars and other explosive devices.
Al-Shabab, a militant group linked to the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack on the hotel.
Two suicide bombers in two vehicles blew themselves up just before the attack and opened fire.
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