Last night, around 21:00, there was a huge explosion in Mogadishu, a weekend tourist destination of the famous Lido beach.
According to the information coming out, 6 men from the militant groups started an attack with suicide bombers and then 5 of them entered the hotel and started shooting at the people inside the hotel.
The security forces of Mogadishu immediately assisted the people inside the hotel after a confrontation between the security forces and the fighters inside the hotel. At midnight in Mogadishu at 3:00, the attack ended with the groups fighting inside the hotel being shot while their bodies were displayed on social media
Alshabab claimed responsibility for the attack
Al-Shabaab terrorist organization fighting in Somalia said that they carried out the attack, Al-Shabaab media reported that Al-Shabaab spread on their social media that they attacked a place where Somali government officials, especially the intelligence agencies, were having a party
It is not the first time that this type of attack has happened in Mogadishu, in this same place and other places in Mogadishu, there have been several suicide attacks in the past.
But in recent times, the attacks have decreased.
Deaths and injuries
Police says 32 people were killed and 63 others injured in a suicide attack on a hotel at Mogadishu’s Lido beach.
To prove this, the officials said that suicide bombing alone could not have caused such a loss because people were seen lying on the ground with injuries and deaths.