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26 dead, 56 injured in attack on Somali hotel: Official

  • 13 Jul 2019
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Workers stand at the sea port of the coastal town of Kismayu in southern Somalia. File photo/Reuters

At least 26 people, including many foreigners, were killed and 56 injured in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al Shabaab militants on a popular hotel in southern Somalia, a top regional official said on Saturday.

“Twenty-six people were killed in the attack and fifty-six others wounded, among those killed are... foreign nationals three Kenyans, one Canadian, one British, two Americans, and three Tanzanians. There are also two wounded Chinese citizens,” regional president Ahmed Mohamed Islam told a news conference.

Agence France-Presse

 

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