Somali hotel attack: Islamist militants attack Mogadishu hotel

By Kevin Sieff
Updated June 26 2016 - 3:29pm, first published 12:46pm
A Somali soldier takes position during an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, June 25. Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh
A Somali soldier takes position during an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, June 25. Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh
Somali men help a wounded civilian who was wounded in a suicide car bomb attack. Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh
Somali men help a wounded civilian who was wounded in a suicide car bomb attack. Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh
A view of the Nasahablod Hotel, destroyed after a bomb attack in Mogadishu, Somalia.  Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh
A view of the Nasahablod Hotel, destroyed after a bomb attack in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh

Mogadishu: At least 11 people were killed and several others wounded Saturday in an attack carried out by al-Qaida-affiliated militants on a well-known hotel in the Somali capital, officials said.