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Gunfire heard inside Nasa-Hablod hotel in Mogadishu
The Associated Press
Posted: Oct 28, 2017 10:55 AM ET
Last Updated: Oct 28, 2017 10:55 AM ET
A Somali police officer says a suspected suicide car bomb has detonated near the gate of a hotel close to the presidential palace in Mogadishu.
Capt. Mohamed Hussein says gunfire could be heard inside the Nasa-Hablod hotel.
Saturday’s blast in Somalia’s capital comes two weeks after more than 350 people were killed in a massive truck bombing on a busy Mogadishu street in the country’s worst-ever attack.
The extremist group al-Shabaab often targets high-profile areas of Mogadishu.
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