Somali militant siege ends, at least 29 civilians dead

Somali militant siege ends, at least 29 civilians dead
# 01 March 2019 23:50 (UTC +04:00)

Somali government troops shot dead three Islamist militants holed up in a building in central Mogadishu on Friday, police said, ending a day-long bomb and gun attack that killed at least 29 civilians, ONA reports quoting sputniknews.

Islamist al Shabaab fighters launched the assault with a suicide car bomb outside the Maka Al-Mukarama hotel on Thursday evening, destroying other structures, igniting a huge fire and leaving people wounded in the rubble.

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