“There will be responsibilities within the government, no one within the government will escape (his) responsibility. Anyone who neglected the responsibility entrusted to him will be held accountable,” Abdi Barre said on Monday, adding: “There is only one option: either we allow the shabab – the “children of hell”– live or we live. We can’t live together.” assured.
Yesterday he Somali Ministry of Health He specified that the attack had lasted 30 hours and that, until Saturday afternoon, the balance was 21 dead and 117 wounded. Rescuers were still looking for possible survivors in the rubble and experts were trying to detect if there were still unexploded explosives, which could cause more fatalities.
Al Shabab, the group to which the attacks are attributed
The jihadists of Al Shabab, a group linked to Al Qaeda, broke into the popular Hayat hotel in Mogadishu last Friday night, frequently frequented by members of the local government and the Army.
In a planned operation, they barricaded themselves on the fourth floor. According to the Islamist group, which has been fighting against the government of this country for 15 years. The Shabab were expelled from the country’s main cities, including Mogadishu in 2011, but continue to inhabit large rural areas..
One of the movement’s founders and former commander, who is now Minister of Religious Affairs, Muktar Robow, known as Abu Mansur, condemned the attack and called on the fighters to leave the group.
Both the United Nations and United States, United Kingdom and TurkeyThey condemned the attack. The European Union delegation in that country, for its part, reaffirmed its support for the government “in its objective of maintaining peace and stability.”
The jihadists, whose irruption in the Hayat hotel led to a heavy firefight, they remain barricaded in the establishment, security services official Abdukadir Hasan told AFP.
Source: Ambito
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