Hotel Siege In Somalia Ends After 30 Hours: 21 Dead, 117 Injured

 

Daily Mail: Somali hotel siege that left 20 dead ends after more than 30 hours: Security forces rescue 106 hostages from inside Mogadishu's Hayat after it was stormed by Islamists linked to al-Qaeda 

* A siege which saw at least 20 people gunned down in Somalia ended at midnight after a 30-hours siege 

* Islamist militants attacked a hotel in Mogadishu led by al Qaeda allies Al Shabaab on Friday, killing residents 

* Gunmen barricaded themselves inside the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, fighting off armed security cops 

* Dozens of victims' relatives at scene as bullets and flames ripped through the popular hotel 

Somali authorities have rescued 106 hostages and ended a deadly attack on a hotel in the capital in which at least 20 people were gunned down by Islamic militants. 

It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to contain the gunmen who stormed Mogadishu's Hayat Hotel on Friday evening in an assault that started with loud explosions. 

On Sunday morning, the area surrounding the hotel was quiet and the roads blocked by a heavy security presence as emergency workers and bomb disposal experts sought to clear the premises of any explosives and remove rubble.  

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Hotel Siege In Somalia Ends After 30 Hours: 21 Dead, 117 Injured 

Hotel siege in Somalia ends after 30 hours with 21 dead, 117 hurt -- CBS/AP  

Somalia hotel siege: More than 20 die in al-Shabab attack -- BBC  

Somali forces end hotel siege by jihadists after at least 20 believed killed -- The Guardian  

Somali forces end deadly al-Shabaab hotel siege -- France 24  

Somalis anxiously await news of loved ones as hotel siege ends -- AFP