Somali officials say security forces have ended a 24-hour siege at a hotel in the central city of Beledwyne, leaving an unknown number of people dead, including all the al-Shabab militants who launched the attack.

A car bomb has exploded at a hotel in the central Somali city of Beledweyne, kicking off an hourslong militant attack. An unknown number of people have been killed.

Al-Shabaab militants stormed a hotel in central Somalia's Beledweyne on Tuesday, killing at least seven people, including local elders and officials, in a deadly siege that underscored the persistent threat of the al-Qaida-linked group.

Somali security forces have ended a deadly 24-hour siege by Islamist fighters who stormed a popular hotel in the central city of Beledweyne, authorities said.

A car bomb has exploded at a hotel in the central Somali city of Beledweyne in a militant attack that killed at least six people, including two prominent traditional elders

Al Shabaab gunmen killed at least seven people in an attack on Tuesday at a hotel in a central Somali town where local elders and government officials were meeting to discuss how to act against the Islamist militant group,