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Somalia’s health minister confirms death toll from hotel attack
2022-08-22
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[ShabelleMedia] Health Minister Dr. Ali Haji said 21 deaths and 117 people were maimed, with at least 15 at death's door as troops end the Hayat hotel attack by al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
Somali police chief Gen Abdi Hassan Mohammed Hijar on Sunday said they ended a deadly attack and 106 people were rescued, among them children.

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

"The siege ended around midnight," said Hijar while speaking to the news hounds near the hotel located at KM4 junction in the capital city.
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