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26 dead in Somali car bomb attack

Staff Correspondent
Somali security officers secure the scene of a suicide car explosion at a checkpoint near the Somali Parliament building in Mogadishu, Somalia on 15 June. Reuters File Photo
Somali security officers secure the scene of a suicide car explosion at a checkpoint near the Somali Parliament building in Mogadishu, Somalia on 15 June. Reuters File Photo

At least 26 people, including many foreigners, were killed and 56 injured in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al-Shabaab militants on a popular hotel in southern Somalia, a top regional official said Saturday.

"Twenty-six people were killed in the attack and fifty-six others wounded, among those killed are... foreign nationals three Kenyans, one Canadian, one British, two Americans, and three Tanzanians. There are also two wounded Chinese citizens," regional president Ahmed Mohamed Islam told a news conference.

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