The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, is reportedly under siege by armed gunmen who stormed the building moments after a bomb rocked the city, it has been reported.Gunmen raided the beachfront Elite Hotel in Liido Beach in Mogadishu, on Sunday after a car bomb was detonated at the front of the building.
Witnesses told Reuters a "blast" was heard before gunfire rang out and "clouds of smoke" could be seen across the sky. A local ambulance service reportedly told Aballe Mumin, a Somalian journalist, there are "many causalities," although this has not been confirmed.
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