Minister among 11 killed in Somalia hotel attack

AFP, MOGADISHU: A junior minister was among 11 people killed in an attack by Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab militants on a hotel in the Somali capital, the foreign ministry said Sunday. The body of Buri Mohamed Hamza, minister of state in the prime minister’s office for the environment, has been retrieved from the collapsed building of the Naasa Hablood hotel, the ministry added. “We extend our deepest condolences to the relatives of the minister who was killed in Mogadishu yesterday,” a ministry statement read. Saturday’s assault, the latest in a series by the Islamist group targeting hotels and restaurants, began when a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives outside the building. Gunmen then stormed the Naasa Hablood hotel in an assault lasting for several hours. Special security forces ended the siege after killing three attackers inside the hotel.

 

Minister among 11 killed in Somalia hotel attack

AFP, MOGADISHU: A junior minister was among 11 people killed in an attack by Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab militants on a hotel in the Somali capital, the foreign ministry said Sunday. The body of Buri Mohamed Hamza, minister of state in the prime ministers office for the environment, has been retrieved from the collapsed building of the Naasa Hablood hotel, the ministry added. We extend our deepest condolences to the relatives of the minister who was killed in Mogadishu yesterday, a ministry statement read. Saturdays assault, the latest in a series by the Islamist group targeting hotels and restaurants, began when a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives outside the building. Gunmen then stormed the Naasa Hablood hotel in an assault lasting for several hours. Special security forces ended the siege after killing three attackers inside the hotel.