location: Mogadishu - Hodan
notes: An al Shabaab attack on Maka Al-Mukarramah Hotel and subsequent battle with SNG forces begins at 4pm on 27/03 and lasts through the following morning. Several hostages were taken by the attackers, who numbered three. Causality figures vary, between 12 and 18, which included the death of the Somali ambassador to Switzerland. Later reports confirm the total dead numbered 14. Several more wounded. By the end of the siege military forces had regained control of the hotel.
target_text: location: Mogadishu - Hodan, fatalities: 14