Mogadishu hotel attack: 15 dead, al-Shabaab claim assault



MOGADISHU: -- Smoke rises from a hotel in Mogadishu after a car bomber rammed the gates and gunmen stormed the building in the Somali capital.

At least 15 people have died in the attack which has been claimed by terror group Al-Shabaab.

Politicians Mohamud Mohamed and Abdullahi Jamac who lived in the Hotel Ambassador were among the victims. Another 40 people were wounded.

One survivor describes the panic, as he screamed for help saying there were so many people under the rubble, begging for help or calling for ambulances.

Five hours after the siege began, Somali security forces continued to battle into the evening, while people were rescued from the scene.

Al-Shabaab was driven from the capital in 2011, but launch frequent attacks to overthrow the Western-backed government.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-06-02

Another unstable, war-torn, poverty stricken country from which people will probably be heading north to the Mediterranean in hopes of making it to Europe.

It's very sad that something doesn't work to stop this religious insanity.

Those peaceful Muslims are practicing their religion (jihad) again.

To the inmans everyone is just cannon fodder in their quest for power, wether it be their fighters or civilians they don't care, their goal is power to inflict strict Isamic law on the people wether they want it or not,

The other Islamic countries won't take any refugees because they want them to come to the west, they hate the christian countries and want them inundated by moslems hopefully eventualy the christian countries will implode.

Coming soon, to a refugee resettlement agency near you. More Somalis.