On 14 March 2024, a suicide bomber affiliated with
al-Shabaab detonated a device outside the SYL hotel in
Mogadishu
Mogadishu, locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and List of cities in Somalia by population, most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia and has ...
,
Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, th ...
. 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
An army, ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by ...
which resulted in the deaths of three soldiers and the six attackers. Twenty-seven other people were wounded. The hotel is located close to the
Presidential Palace
A presidential palace is the official residence of the president in some countries. Some presidential palaces were once the official residences to monarchs in former monarchies that were preserved during those states' transition into republics. ...
. The location makes it popular with government officials.
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Mass murder in 2024
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Sieges of the Somali Civil War
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21st-century mass murder in Somalia
Building bombings in Mogadishu
Suicide bombings in Mogadishu
2020s crimes in Mogadishu
2024 mass shootings in Africa
Mass shootings in Somalia
Shootouts
Mass murder in Mogadishu
2020s sieges
Battles of the Somali Civil War (2009–present)
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