Somali forces end hotel attack which left 20 dead

Somali soldiers patrol outside the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP)

Somali authorities have ended a deadly attack on a hotel in the capital in which at least 20 people were killed.

It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to contain the gunmen who had stormed Mogadishu’s Hayat Hotel on Friday evening in an assault that started with loud explosions.