Responsibility for attack was assumed by the group Al-Shabab.
Police in Somalia have reported 15 dead and 25 wounded in the attack, the radical Islamist group Al-Shabab on a hotel in Mogadishu.
Most of the dead and wounded are civilians — passers-by and customers of nearby shops and automobile filling stations, said a police spokesman Mohamed Abdulkadir. He also said that the shootout with the militants still continues.
Accurate information about liquidated or wounded militants was not reported.
Earlier it was reported that the militants of Al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attack, attacked the hotel Nasa-Hablod. Previously, militants blew up a car near the gate. Media reported about the seven victims, but police did not specify who was killed by terrorists, police or hotel guests. The police managed to rescue people, bringing them through the back door. The militant group took hostages, information about their numbers yet.
In Somalia based radical Islamic grouping “Ash-Shabab” (“Movement of young Mujahideen”), with close ties to international terrorist organization “al-Qaeda”. “Al-Shabab is waging an armed struggle against the Central government of the country and impedes the humanitarian activities of the UN. The group made the U.S. list of terrorist organizations in 2008, in respect of it in the country of sanctions.
