10 Killed As Shabaab Fighters Battle In Somalia Siege.
“Rescue operations are still ongoing. The death toll may, therefore, be higher because there could be still bodies under the debris.”
Abdukadir Abdirahman, director of the Aamin Ambulance service, said that at least 60 people had been wounded.Witnesses close to the area reported sounds of explosions on Friday morning. “There are still some armed men inside a building,” police officer Ibrahim Mohamed said, amid sporadic bursts of gunfire and grenade explosions.Medics said they had pulled out several bodies from the wreckage of the bomb blast immediately after the explosion, but recovery of any more bodies has been blocked by the ensuing fighting.Shabaab insurgents said the bombing was aimed at killing senior officials staying in the Maka Al-Mukarama hotel.
They boasted in a statement on Friday of holding out against multiple attempts by soldiers to defeat them, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist activities.Witnesses said the bombing took place in the early evening when the street was filled with people relaxing after a day’s work.Shabaab fighters fled the fixed positions they once held in Mogadishu in 2011, and have since lost many of their strongholds.
But they retain control of large rural swathes of the country and continue to wage a guerrilla war against the authorities.
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