Prime Minister Vows Accountability After Deadly Hotel Attack: Somalia
Hamza Abdi Barre said the government takes responsibility for what happened in Friday's attack on the Hayat Hotel.
Al-Shabab is attempting to counter the government's pronouncements, said Samira Gaid, executive director of the Hiraal Institute, a Mogadishu-based research institution. The official said seven militants were directly involved in the attack. Three of them were suicide bombers. The first one blew himself up at the gate at about 7:00 p.m. local time on Friday, followed by a car bomb explosion by another suicide bomber.
Officials said they are investigating whether other people inside the hotel aided al-Shabab. Officials are not ruling out the possibility that some individuals who assisted in the attack hid among those rescued and escaped. "The rescue forces came late," said Mohamed Hassan Haad, a traditional elder who said he was rescued after more than four hours hiding in an alleyway.
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