Hotel Blast in Somalia Kills Eight Fifteen

(Mogadishu, Somalia) Three Somalian government ministers were killed this morning when a bomb exploded in the Shamo Hotel in Mogadishu. Early reporting is sketchy.

Reports say Somalia’s Health Minister Qamar Aden Ali has been killed in a huge explosion that rocked a hotel in the restive capital Mogadishu.

The blast was targeted at workshop held in Mogadishu’s Sham Hotel where the minister, other participants and journalists were in attendance.

According to the BBC, it was a suicide bomber and dead bodies included government ministers, journalists, doctors and graduate students. They were attending a graduation ceremony.

Another source says that the ministers for health, Qamar Aden Ali, education, Ahmen Abdulahi Waayeel, and higher education, Ibrahim Hassan Addow, are all dead.

Latest report says at least 15 are dead including three journalists.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.