Mogadishu , Somalia ( CNN ) -- A double car bomb attack outside of a hotel in Somalia 's capital Wednesday night killed at least one person and injured up to a dozen others , police said . Police official Yusuf Ali said the first suicide car bomb exploded outside the main gate of the Jazeera Palace Hotel , with the second blast from a parked car following as first responders began gathering to evacuate the injured . Three of the wounded were security personnel stationed outside the gate . At the time of the Mogadishu blasts , there were several senior members of the Somali government inside the Jazeera hotel . It is believed the injured guards were part of the security detail of government officials . Of the 12 people injured , some were seriously wounded and transported to local hospitals . No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks . Last month , another bombing at a hotel in the capital left five people dead and at least 15 wounded , a government spokesman said . A car bomb went off on November 8 outside Hotel Makkah Al-Mukarama in central Mogadishu , Abdikarim Hussein Guled , the African country 's interior and national security minister , told local media . Those killed included Abdulkadir Ali , the Somalian government 's former acting envoy to Britain better known as `` Dhub , '' said Abdirahman Omar Osman , presidential spokesperson . Some of Somalia 's violence has been traced to Al-Shabaab , an al Qaeda-linked organization that the U.S. government calls a terrorist group and was behind the deadly siege earlier this fall of a Nairobi , Kenya , shopping mall . A U.S. military drone strike in southern Somalia in late October killed two suspected Al-Shabaab members , U.S. officials said . And a recent joint raid by Kenyan and Somali forces killed at least 30 people believed to be part of that group . In September 2012 , Somalia 's new president , Hassan Sheikh Mohamud , escaped an apparent assassination attempt at the Jazeera hotel , just two days after being selected as the troubled country 's new leader . According to a presidential press officer and several journalists at the scene , early indications are that the attack was carried out by two suicide bombers who set off explosives at the gates of the Jazeera Palace Hotel , where the president was having high-level meetings . At least four Somali government soldiers and one African Union soldier were killed in that attack , according to journalists at the scene . Journalist Omar Nor reported from Mogadishu , and CNN 's Ray Sanchez wrote this story from New York .
Double car bombs explode near Somali hotel . The first blast went off at the upscale Intercontinental Hotel in Mogadishu, killing more than 100 people and wounding hundreds more.