MOGADISHU, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least 17 people in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, two weeks after a huge truck bomb killed hundreds of civilians in the city. A suicide car bomb was rammed into a hotel, Nasahablod Two, about 600 metres from the presidential palace, and then armed militants stormed the building, police said. A few minutes later, a car bomb exploded near the former parliament house nearby. The suicide car bomb explosion detonated at the gate of Naso Hablod Two Hotel. In 2016, 723 people died in 395 bomb attacks in Somalia, according to a report produced earlier this year by Nairobi-based think tank Sahan Research.

Source: Huffington Post October 28, 2017 19:52 UTC