![]() When the gunmen entered the hotel, the news service reports, "survivors described chaotic scenes in which hotel residents hid under beds and others jumped out of windows of the four-story building to escape the attackers."Ībdirizak Omar Mohamed, a senior government official, told the BBC that four militants were killed by security forces.Īfrican Union forces pushed al-Shabab out of Mogadishu more than five years ago, but the al-Qaida-linked group continues to mount attacks there, as The Two-Way has reported. Security forces were able to break through the militants' siege at the hotel, according to The Associated Press. However, as NPR's Eyder Peralta reports from Nairobi, "Radio Andalus, which is associated with al-Shabab, says the attack started inside a hotel and then 'martyrs' moved outside with a second explosion." A second bomb exploded shortly after the first. Multiple news reports say the militants set off a car bomb at the gate of the hotel, then stormed the building on foot. UPDATE: Hashi Omar Hassan a Somali man who was released from Italian prison where he had spent 17 years for wrongly convicted of murdering 2 Italian journalists has been killed in Mogadishu,Somaliaafter a bomb explosion fitted on his car today. It's unclear exactly how the attack unfolded. ![]() Prima Home Health is part of the Hospitals & Physicians Clinics industry, and located in Virginia, United States. ![]() ![]() Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, PRI provided programming to over 850 public radio stations in the United States. (703) 955-7800 Company Prima Home Health Omar Abdi Current Workplace Omar Abdi has been working as a Managing Director at Prima Home Health for 17 years. RAW VIDEO: Hotel attacked by extremists in Mogadishu, Somalia. Public Radio International ( PRI) was an American public radio organization. ![]()
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