What the records say
- When
- 3 Dec 2009
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 2.03° N, 45.30° E
- Description
- Three Somali cabinet ministers are amongst dozens killed in a bomb blast at a university graduation ceremony at a hotel in Mogadishu.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing.
2009 Hotel Shamo bombing
Suicide terror attack in Mogadishu, Somalia
The 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing occurred at the Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 3 December 2009. The suicide bombing killed 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government, and injured 60 more, making it the deadliest attack in Somalia since the Beledweyne bombing on 18 June 2009 that claimed more than 30 lives.
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