MOGADISHU, SOMALIA—A suicide truck bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital on Saturday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 30, and gunfire continued as security forces pursued other attackers inside the building, police said. Mohamed Hussein said 30 people, including a government minister, were rescued from the Nasa-Hablod hotel as heavy gunfire continued in the standoff between extremists and security forces. Saturday’s blasts came two weeks after more than 350 people were killed in a massive truck bombing on a busy Mogadishu street in the country’s worst-ever attack. Somalis carry away a man injured after a car bomb was detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia on Oct 28, 2017. U.S. military officials and others in recent months have expressed concern that Somali forces are not yet ready.

Source: thestar October 28, 2017 16:15 UTC