Mogadishu---Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants launched a car bomb attack followed by an armed raid on a Mogadishu hotel Friday, causing several casualties, a police official said.
"There was an explosion outside and gunmen stormed the hotel. There is shooting inside. We don't know how many dead there are," police official Ahmed Abdi Fatah told AFP, adding some government officials were also believed to have been wounded.
AFP
