location: Mogadishu - Hamar Jabjab
notes: A VBIED detonated in front of the Siyaad Hotel (Xamar Jab Jab District) in the evening of 10/07. The explosion was followed by serious exchange of gunfire between the hotel guards/ SNP force and the al Shabaab attackers. Reports show that the attackers were seven in number including the suicide. Security forces reinforced the scene and closed the whole area. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the attackers were aiming at Hotel SYL which is adjacent to Siyaad Hotel and that they diverted to Siyaad when the SYL Hotel guards fired them very seriously. Numbers of dead not known.
target_text: location: Mogadishu - Hamar Jabjab, fatalities: 1