According to a security director on Saturday, the death toll from an al-Shabab extremist attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, has risen to 13.
We are awaiting confirmation of the deaths of five more victims, increasing the total number of people killed by terrorists to 13, according to Mohamed Abdelkader.
Ibrahim Dawali, a police spokesman, acknowledged the deaths of ten people but added that the police will give updated information after the siege on the Hayat Hotel is removed.
He went on to say that the bulk of the people who were at the hotel during the Friday evening attack had been rescued.
He told AFP that the security forces will declare the siege over at any time. It took a long time due to the complexity of the rescue attempt.
The head of Mogadishu’s primary trauma hospital, Mohamed Abdel Rahman Jameh, said the hospital was treating at least 40 people injured in the hotel bombing and a following mortar strike in another section of the capital.
The security forces continued to destroy the terrorists, who were imprisoned in a room within the hotel building, and the majority of the people were saved, according to the official, Mohamed Abdel-Qader.
Earlier, police and intelligence sources said that terrorists had taken over a hotel in Somalia following the use of two truck bombs and gunfire.
The death toll from an Al-Shabab attack on a Mogadishu hotel has grown to 13.
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