article_snippet: A bloody hotel siege ended with at least 17 people dead after Somali troops stormed Somali troops storm building.
article_snippet: It was the culmination of a 12-hour standoff which saw four Al Shabaab Islamic militants take hostages in a Mogadishu hotel after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car at the gate.
article_snippet: A hotel guest desperately tries to make A hotel guest way to the roof of a Mogadishu hotel as militants storm Somali troops storm building .
article_snippet: Al-Mukarramah took over the third and fourth floors of the the Maka Al-Mukarramah hotel in the capital Mogadishu, police officer Capt.
article_snippet: The operation has ended we have taken full control of a Mogadishu hotel,' Mohamed Hussein said.
article_snippet: the hotel is now fully under the control of militants,' Major Ismail Olow, a Mogadishu police officer at the scene, said on Friday. '
article_snippet: Gunfire erupted between security forces and the militants after the militants stormed the hotel.
highlights_snippet: Four gunmen took over hotel popular with government officials .
  
highlights_snippet: Police surrounded hotel popular with government officials but came under fire from Four gunmen .
  