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Police in Somalia say security forces have ended a siege by al-Shabab militants who attacked a heavily guarded hotel close to the country’s presidential palace.
Police spokesperson Major General Qasim Ahmed Roble told Somali that all five assailants who carried out the attack have been killed, “and now the situation has been normalized.”
Roble said three government soldiers were also killed, and 27 people were injured during the siege of the SYL Hotel that began Thursday evening. He said the injured included nine soldiers and 18 civilians.
The hotel attack began around 9 p.m. local time Thursday evening, when armed al-Shabab fighters stormed the heavily guarded hotel.
