Ten dead for the terrorist attack of a hotel in Somalia | Chronic

Ten people, including politicians and journalists, were killed on Friday by a car bomb attack at a hotel in southern Somalia attributed to the jihadist group Al Shabab, according to witnesses and survivors of the attack .

The attack seriously damaged As-Asey Hotel, in the port city of Kismayo, where a group entered while shooting with guns after the explosion.

The EFE agency, which cited as source lawmaker and survivor of the attack Abdirahman Ali, reported that among the dead is the Somali TV presenter Hodan Nalayeh, well known in your country.

This jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack shortly after its perpetration, as stated in Twitter the US security organization SITE.

Al Shabab officially joined the al-Qaida terrorist network in 2012 and controls part of central and southern Somalia, where it aims to create a Wahhabi Islamic State.

Somalia, located in the so-called Horn of Africa, is plunged into a state of war and chaos since 1991, the year of the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, leaving the country without effective government and in the hands of militias and radical Islamist gangs. armed criminals.