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July 13, 2019 At least 26 people, including many foreigners, were killed and 56 wounded in a suicide bomb attack and a gunshot attack yesterday and claimed by Al-Shabaab militants at a hotel in southern Somalia in Chisimaio.
- "Twenty-six people were killed in the attack and another fifty-six injured. Among the victims were foreign nationals, three Kenyans, one Canadian, one British, two Americans and three Tanzanians. There are also two Chinese citizens injured", the president said. regional Ahmed Mohamed Islam at a press conference.
Among the victims, also the activist and journalist, founder of Integration Tv, programs on youtube for Somali communities in English Hodan Nalayeh, and her husband Farid Jama Suleiman with whom she was on vacation, announced a Somali politician who survived the 'attack. After the explosion, attackers broke into the hotel and opened fire on guests and staff. The siege that followed, which lasted ten hours, ended with the killing of an as yet unspecified number of assailants, local police announced this morning.