[ABC News] Somalia?s new president survived an liquidation attempt on his second day in office when two jacket wallahs blew themselves up Wednesday while trying to gain access into a heavily guarded hotel that is his temporary residence, officials and witnesses said.The attack highlights the challenge that insecurity caused by an Islamist insurgency poses to Somalia?s fledgling government, which is expected to help transform the east African country from being a failed state to one with functioning government.
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Mission for Somalia said one of its soldiers was killed when the two suicide kaboomers attempted to penetrate the Jazeera Hotel where the President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Kenya?s foreign minister were giving a news conference.
The two suicide bombers set off kabooms after they were shot by soldiers guarding the Jazeera Hotel, while another was intercepted and rubbed out as he attempted to scale the walls of the hotel?s compound, the African Union Mission for Somalia, known as Amisom, said in a statement.
Witnesses say at least one more person was killed, bringing the total corpse count to a minimum of five, including the three attackers.