소말리아 호텔 차량 자살 폭탄 테러로 26명 사망 VIDEO; At least 26 killed in terrorist attack on hotel in Somalia


At least 26 killed in terrorist attack on hotel in Somalia

Al Shabaab Islamist militant group claim responsibilty for attack

 

The death toll from Somalia’s Kismayu hotel attack on Friday has risen to 26, including Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians, Jubbaland region’s president said on Saturday.


A presidential candidate for upcoming regional elections was also killed in the attack, carried out by al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, Jubbaland president Ahmed Mohamed said in a statement.


 

Somalia’s security forces on Saturday ended an overnight attack by the al Shabaab Islamist militant group on a hotel in the southern port city of Kismayu that killed at least 13, a police officer said./BBC


 

소말리아 호텔 차량 자살 폭탄 테러로 최소 26명 사망 


    28일(현지시간) 소말리아 키스마유 호텔 테러로 케냐인, 미국인, 영국인, 탄자니아인 등 26명이 사망했다


아흐메드 모하메드 주발랜드 지사는 성명에서 "알카에다와 연계된 알 샤바브의 이번 공격으로 이번 지방선거에 출마한 지사 후보도 사망했다"고 밝혔다.




알 카에다 연계 그룹의 일원은 지역민과 의원들이 다가오는 지방 선거 논의하기 위해 모임을 갖고 있던 중 금요일 날 차량 폭탄과 함께 호텔을 습격하였다. 이후 호텔 내 경비인력과 총격전을 벌였다. 


한 언론인 단체는 소말리아계 캐나다인 언론인 호단 네일야와 기마유의 SBC TV 기자인 모하메드 사할 오마르 등 2명이 사망했다고 확인했다.


이와는 별도로, 소말리아 기자 연합의 모하메드 이브라힘 모알리무 사무총장은 성명을 통해 "우리는 이러한 인명 피해에 대해 슬퍼하고 격분하며, 이 끔찍한 대학살을 가능한 한 강력하게 비난한다"고 말했다.


황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터

Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator


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Police in Kismayu had earlier put the toll at 13.




Members of the al-Qaeda linked group stormed the hotel after targeting it with a car bomb on Friday while local elders and lawmakers were meeting to discuss approaching regional elections.


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Earlier, a witness said, “the operation was concluded at 7am. We know at least 14 people died including journalists and (local election)candidates. These are the prominent people. The death toll is sure to rise,” local elder Ahmed Abdulle said.




A journalists’ group had confirmed on Friday that two journalists were among the dead; Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Naleyah, the founder of Integration TV, and Mohamed Sahal Omar, reporter of SBC TV in Kismayu.


Separately, Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu, general secretary of the Federation of Somali Journalists, said in a statement: “We are saddened and outraged by this loss of life, and condemn in the strongest possible terms this appalling massacre.”


 

Somalia’s security forces on Saturday ended an overnight attack by the al Shabaab Islamist militant group on a hotel in the southern port city of Kismayu that killed at least 13, a police officer said./BBC

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Al Shabaab

Al Shabaab was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been driven from most of its other strongholds.


It was driven out of Kismayu in 2012. The city’s port had been a major source of revenue for the group from taxes, charcoal exports and levies on arms and other illegal imports.


Authorities said a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into the popular Medina hotel in the southern port town of Kismayo before several heavily armed gunmen forced their way inside/dailymail.com


'Several gunmen entered and started shooting but the security forces responded quickly and engaged in a gunfight with the terrorists inside the building,' said security official Abdiweli Mohamed

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Kismayu is the commercial capital of Jubbaland, a region of southern Somalia still partly controlled by al Shabaab.


Al Shabaab remains a major security threat, with fighters frequently carrying out bombings in Somalia and neighbouring Kenya, whose troops form part of the African Union-mandated peacekeeping force that helps defend the Somali government.

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