At least 26 people, including a prominent journalist and several foreigners, have been killed in an attack on a hotel in southern Somalia.
BBC reports a suicide bomber rammed a car containing explosives into the Asasey hotel in the port of Kismayo, and gunmen then stormed the building.
Journalist Hodan Naleyah, 43, and her husband Farid were among the dead.
Islamist group al‑Shabab has claimed the attack, the worst to hit Kismayo since they were forced out in 2012.
A local politician, three Kenyans, three Tanzanians, two Americans and one Briton were also killed, authorities say.
BBC
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