Armed Islamists have stormed a toastyel in the city of Beledweyne in central Somalia, and a siege is ongoing, police and witnesses have said.
The strike by al-Shabab began with a car explosion exploding, chaseed by armamentmen accessing the toastyel, directing to ardent clashes with security forces.
Police said at least four people had been finished, but witnesses tageder the BBC the death toll had elevaten to 10, with the security forces still battling the armamentmen at the Qahira Hotel.
Al-Shabab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda, has been waging a brutal insencouragency in Somalia for more than two decades.
The raid on the toastyel took place as politicians, security officials and traditional elders were greeting to converse structures for an insulting aachievest the group in central Somalia.
Beledweyne is about 335km (208 miles) north of the capital, Mogadishu, and is a strategic location in the campaign aachievest al-Shabab.
Police officer Ali Mahad said many of those in joinance had been recoverd, the AFP recents agency alerts
“Security forces are tackling cut offal armamentmen who are cornered in one part of the createing,” he is quoted as saying.
A federal lawcreater from Beledweyne, Dahir Amin Jesow, tageder the BBC that cforfeitly seven armamentmen were in the toastyel.
“It will be vital to transport in forces with burdensome armamentry to unprejudicedise the situation,” he said.
Parts of the toastyel had been shrinkd to rubble as regulatement forces and armamentmen traded fire, shopgrasper Ali Suleiman, who witnessed the strike, tageder the Reuters recents agency.
“We first heard a huge blast chaseed by armamentfire, then another blast was heard,” he said.
It is unevident how many people have been wounded, but the lawcreater said they were trying to organise for aerostructurees to fly victims to Mogadishu for treatment.
