Still shots at Mogadishu hotel

- At the Ambassador Hotel in Mogadishu Thursday was still sporadic shooting, one night after an attack by the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab. When the attack came, according to the latest data from the police at least sixteen people were killed, including two members of the Somali parliament. 55 people were injured.

Security forces are now in the building, but the police suspect that terrorists are still on the top floor and on the roof there. Government forces have dropped off near the hotel, but eyewitnesses stated that occasionally sounded still shots and that the building was badly battered. A witness had someone on the fifth floor to hear call for help.