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The toll of car bombs perpetrated Friday in the Somali capital has risen to 52, according to the admission statistics of five hospitals.
Somali security officials who responded to the attack said that four militants had entered the hotel and went to the roof, shooting people downstairs. According to them, the security forces finally killed the attackers and saved dozens of people from their hotel rooms.
The militant group Al-Shabab, which has been insurgent for more than 10 years, has claimed responsibility.
The explosions, which occurred a few minutes apart, were aimed at the Sahafi hotel in Mogadishu and its surroundings. The hotel is located near the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Somali Police.
Doctors and administrators of the city's five hospitals that primarily treat victims of gunfire and explosions – Medina, Darul Shifa, Erdogan, also known as the Sudanese Digfer Hospital, Kalkaal and Somalia – do not count the number of deaths, ie 106, or 106 deaths. others are injured.
Dr. Mohamed Yusuf, director of Medina Hospital, the largest emergency care center in the city, told VOA that 63 blast victims had been admitted.
"We received 63 victims. Thirty-two were wounded, but three of them died in the hospital and the remaining 31 died and we transferred them to the morgue, "he said.
Yusuf said that patients wounded by gunfire and explosions occupied almost 100% of Medina beds, although their numbers have recently decreased dramatically due to the decrease in the number of explosions and the prolongation the delay between some of the biggest attacks.
"The number of receptions for the injured has been unusual recently, but we've always remembered we were in Mogadishu and things can happen at any time," Yusuf said.
Mohamed Osman Abas, director of Darul Shifa Hospital, said 26 critically injured people were being treated at the facility after car bomb explosions and gunfire rocked the city on Friday.
A witness who was inside the hotel at that time said on condition of anonymity that the front of the building had been destroyed by the force of the explosions.
Former Somali legislator Abdi Barre Jibril said that women and children were among the victims. "Two women and an eight-year-old child were among the dead," he told VOA.
