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Saudi- 'Somalia hotel suicide bombers were Dutch'
(MENAFN- Arab News) MOGADISHU: Twin suicide bombings at a Mogadishu hotel popular with ministers and officials were carried out by Dutch nationals Somali intelligence sources said Saturday the day after 25 people were killed.
Somali intelligence believe both suicide bombers a man and a woman were DutchSomali citizens who infiltrated the Central Hotel close to the presidential palace ahead of the attack.
Sources within the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said the man identified as Ismail Muse exploded a bomb in a car parked at the hotel while the woman Lula Ahmed Dahir detonated her explosive vest inside the hotel's prayer room.
The woman 'worked part time in the hotel for up to four months' according to an intelligence report seen by AFP.
'Her relationship to the male attacker... is not yet known but thought to be very close if not husband' said the report.
The attack left 25 people dead including two MPs the deputy mayor of Mogadishu the prime minister's private secretary and the deputy PM's chief of staff.
Deputy PM Mohamed Arte the minister of transport and minister of port and marine resources were among dozens of injured.
Heavy gunfire followed the two explosions as nervous security forces searched the hotel compound.
'The building was badly hit the explosion was very big' said police officer Abulrahman Ali.
Thick clouds of black smoke were seen pouring from the hotel as the injured were rushed to hospital.
Shabab militants quickly claimed responsibility for the attack.
'Our fighters attacked the Central Hotel' Shabab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP saying that the aim had been 'to kill the apostate officials.'
Shabab rebels have staged a string of assault
Somali intelligence believe both suicide bombers a man and a woman were DutchSomali citizens who infiltrated the Central Hotel close to the presidential palace ahead of the attack.
Sources within the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said the man identified as Ismail Muse exploded a bomb in a car parked at the hotel while the woman Lula Ahmed Dahir detonated her explosive vest inside the hotel's prayer room.
The woman 'worked part time in the hotel for up to four months' according to an intelligence report seen by AFP.
'Her relationship to the male attacker... is not yet known but thought to be very close if not husband' said the report.
The attack left 25 people dead including two MPs the deputy mayor of Mogadishu the prime minister's private secretary and the deputy PM's chief of staff.
Deputy PM Mohamed Arte the minister of transport and minister of port and marine resources were among dozens of injured.
Heavy gunfire followed the two explosions as nervous security forces searched the hotel compound.
'The building was badly hit the explosion was very big' said police officer Abulrahman Ali.
Thick clouds of black smoke were seen pouring from the hotel as the injured were rushed to hospital.
Shabab militants quickly claimed responsibility for the attack.
'Our fighters attacked the Central Hotel' Shabab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP saying that the aim had been 'to kill the apostate officials.'
Shabab rebels have staged a string of assault
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