Suicide car bomb targets hotel in Somali port city, two journalists confirmed dead

Somali residents react as they gather at the scene of a suicide car explosion in front of Doorbin hotel in Mogadishu, last year. Another car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers were meeting followed by gunfire. [Reuters]

A car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers had been discussing an upcoming regional election and was followed by gunfire, police said, adding that the death toll could be high.

A journalists’ group said it had confirmed two reporters among the dead.