Latest:The assailants may have taken some hostages inside the Liido Seafood restaurant, which is popular with Mogadishu’s elite and government officials, police said.

Somalia’s Islamic extremists have attacked a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least nine people and injuring 10.

13 people have been confirmed dead following a huge bomb explosion at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

At least 10 people have been killed after gunmen stormed two hotels in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.