2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege

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2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege
Part of the Somali Civil War
LocationSYL Hotel, Mogadishu, Somalia
Date14 March 2024 (2024-03-14)
Target Government officials
Attack type
Bombing, siege, shootout
Deaths14 (including 6 perpetrators)
Injured27
Perpetrators Al-Shabaab

On 14 March 2024, a suicide bomber affiliated with al-Shabaab detonated a device outside the SYL hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. [1] Three guards and two security forces were reported killed. [2] 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. [3] Twenty-seven other people were wounded. [4] The hotel is located close to the Presidential Palace. [5] The location makes it popular with government officials. [6]

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References

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