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Around five al Shabaab attackers launched a complex attack against Wehliye Hotel (Hawl-Wadaag District) and along the busy Maka Al Mukarama road in the evening of 10/07. The attack started with a car explosion (VBIED) followed by exchange of gunfire between the al Shabaab attackers on one side and the SNG forces and the hotel guards on the other side. The attackers did not manage to enter the hotel due to fierce resistant which was coming from the SNG forces/ Hotel guards. The fighting lasted for one hour and twenty minutes after which the security forces killed all the attackers and restored the order. Five people were killed in the attack and roughly ten others were injured. The four al Shabaab attackers were also killed. Two Federal MPs are among the injured. |
