Somalia minister among 11 killed in Mogadishu hotel attack

[WorldNews]

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A junior minister was among 11 people killed in an attack by Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab militants on a hotel in the Somali capital, the foreign ministry said Sunday. The body of Buri Mohamed Hamza, minister of state in the prime minister's office for the environment, has been retrieved from the collapsed building of the Naasa Hablood hotel, the ministry added. "We extend our deepest condolences to the relatives of the minister who was killed in Mogadishu yesterday," a ministry statement read.

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