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People remove damaged furniture from the destroyed Hayat Hotel, days after a deadly siege by al-Shabab extremists, in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. The siege was the longest such ...

Somali police officers ride on their pick-up truck towards Hotel Hayat, the scene of an al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group militant attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, Aug. 20, 2022.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali authorities on Sunday ended an attack by Islamic extremists that left 21 people dead and over 110 wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital.

MOGADISHU — Somali federal police said Sunday that security forces had ended the Mogadishu hotel siege by the al-Qaida-affiliated militant group al-Shabab after nearly 30 hours of operations.

It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to contain the fighters who had stormed Mogadishu’s Hayat Hotel on Friday evening in an assault that started with loud explosions.

Twenty-one civilians were killed in a 30-hour siege of a popular hotel by Islamist militants, the deadliest attack in the East African nation’s capital city in months.

Somali authorities on Sunday ended a deadly attack in which 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital.

Somali authorities on Sunday regained control of a hotel in Mogadishu where gunmen killed 21 people and wounded dozens more, after a more than 30 hour stand-off.

It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to contain the fighters who had stormed Mogadishu's Hayat Hotel on Friday evening in an assault leaving at least 21 dead and scores wounded.