Somali police announce the end of an Al-Shabaab attack on a hotel in Mogadishu. Police confirm that “all the militants” were killed after an operation that lasted more than 13 hours.
Local sources reported that the attack resulted in the injury of several people, including government spokesman Farhan Mohamed Jamali, Abdul Hamid Abdullahi Fanakas, a senior Somali police commander, journalists at the hotel, and some members of Parliament. Eyewitnesses reported that initially explosions were heard in the evening outside the hotel.