article_snippet: While the hotel, located in Somalia's capital, is popular with government officials, the hotel, located in Somalia's capital, is popular with government officials remains unclear who is being targeted in the attack.
article_snippet: A hotel guest desperately tries to make A hotel guest way to the roof of a Mogadishu hotel as militants storm the building .
article_snippet: Police and security forces stand guard at the scene of the suicide bombing in Mogadishu the suicide bombing in Mogadishu as Police and security forces exchange gunfire with militants inside the building .
article_snippet: Somali police take aim as Somali police walk outside the Hotel Maka Al-Mukaram, where an unknown number of people are being held hostage .
article_snippet: a Mogadishu hotel is now fully under the control of militants,' Major Ismail Olow, a Mogadishu police officer at the scene of the suicide bombing in Mogadishu, said. '
article_snippet: Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab are on the top of the building and inside a Mogadishu hotel.
article_snippet: Two policemen take up positions near a Mogadishu hotel during Two policemen shootout with Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab extremists .
article_snippet: Two police officers take cover behind a wall of a Mogadishu hotel's exterior during the standoff with militants .
article_snippet: militants have continued to launch attacks in Mogadishu despite being ousted from militants bases in the seaside city in 2011.
article_snippet: Gunfire erupted between security forces and the militants after the militants stormed the hotel.
highlights_snippet: Nine killed as four gunmen storm hotel popular with government officials .
  
highlights_snippet: Police surrounded four gunmen storm hotel popular with government officials but came under fire from Al-Shabaab gunmen .
  