According to Somalia’s officials, an attack on a hotel in the southern city of Kassamio, which the Islamic “Al-Shabab” organisation had taken over, resulted in nine deaths and 47 injuries on Sunday.
The assault on Kissameo is the most recent in a string of recent attacks by groups affiliated with al-Qaeda that have primarily targeted central Somalia and the country’s capital, Mogadishu.
Since Al-Shabaab was driven out of the city in 2012, there has been a fair amount of peace.
At twelve on Sunday, the assault started.
When a car bomb struck the “Tawakol” hotel’s entrance at 45 pm local time. After the security personnel killed the attackers, the attack was over at seven in the evening.
One of the victims had just gotten out of the local school.
The suicide bomber was among the four attackers who were slain, he continued.
In confirmation of a previous police statement, Othman said to correspondents, “(the first attacker) detonated himself, and killed the other three security forces.
This isn’t a government objective. Police officer Abdullah Ismail said, “It is just a typical hotel that people from the general public stay at.
Al -Shabaab claimed responsibility for the six -hour attack, and said that members of the Joballand government – where Kisameo – was gathered at the hotel at the time.
Al -Shabaab is fighting a long -term struggle against the federal government.
The movement is in charge of a sizable portion of southern and central Somalia, but it has also managed to expand its influence into territory governed by the Mogadishu-based government.
The movement’s fighters attacked targets along the border between Somalia and Ethiopia earlier in the year, raising concerns about the possibility of a new strategy for the organization..
A hotel in southern Somalia was attacked, leaving 9 people killed and 47 injured.
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