2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege

When

14 Mar 2024

Kind

Event

Coordinates

2.04° N, 45.34° E

Placed at the area around the town its text names, Mogadishu.

2024 Mogadishu YSL Hotel attack and siege - An al-Shabaab member blows himself up outside a hotel in Mogadishu, killing three guards and two security forces. Six gunmen then storm the hotel in 13-hour siege, leading to a gunfight with the army in which three soldiers and the six attackers are killed. Twenty-seven people are wounded.

Terrorist incident in Somalia

On 14 March 2024, a suicide bomber affiliated with al-Shabaab detonated a device outside the SYL hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. Three guards and two security forces were reported killed. Five gunmen then stormed the hotel in a 13-hour siege, causing a gunfight with the army which resulted in the deaths of three soldiers and the six attackers. Twenty-seven other people were wounded.

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