Suicide bombers strike Mogadishu hotel, leaving dozens of casualties

DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. January 25, 2017, 9:31 AM (IDT)

In a coordinated attack in the Somalian capital on Wednesday morning, an explosives-packed truck driven by a suicide bomber blew up after crashing into the lobby of a hotel, and another suicide bomber blew himself up at the hotel several minutes later. Reports on local social networks reported dozens of casualties and massive exhanges of gunfire at the Dayahx hotel, where dozens of Somali parliamentarians and many foreign reporters were said to be staying. 

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