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Chinese national confirmed dead in Mogadishu hotel blast

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2015-07-27 13:24Xinhua Editor: Mo Hong'e

中国驻索马里使馆1名工作人员遇袭去世 3人受轻伤

当地时间7月26日下午4时左右(北京时间晚9时左右),索马里首都摩加迪沙半岛皇宫酒店遭到自杀式汽车炸弹袭击,造成多国多名人员伤亡。中国驻索使馆位于酒店内,正在馆内办公的中国驻索使馆1名负责安全警卫的工作人员因伤势严重医治无效不幸去世,另有3名使馆工作人员受轻伤。

A hotel blast in the Somali capital occurred on Sunday, killing one Chinese national and injuring three others. (Photo/Chinanews.com)

A hotel blast in the Somali capital occurred on Sunday, killing one Chinese national and injuring three others. (Photo/Chinanews.com)

A Chinese national was killed and three others injured in Sunday's hotel blast in the Somali capital, the Chinese embassy in Mogadishu confirmed on Monday.

Chinese Embassy in Somalia, whose offices are in the attacked Jazera hotel, said that one of its armed guards has succumbed to severe wounds while three other injured staffers were still receiving treatment.

Mogadishu police officer Abdulle Mohamed told Xinhua earlier that a suicide bomber detonated his car at the gate of the hotel and killed 15 people, with most of them being civilians.

Located near Mogadishu international airport, the six-storied building is one of the luxury hotels in the Somali capital, and which houses foreign embassies and sometimes hosts government high-level meetings.

Suited on the top two storeys, the Chinese embassy said earlier that some of its rooms were also damaged in the blast.

Somalia-based militant group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was a revenge for the Africa Union and Somali forces' recent operation in Dinsoor and Bardhere regions of southern Somalia.

The attack comes a day after a Somali lawmaker was killed in Mogadishu Saturday in the latest incidents of insecurity in the capital, for which Al-Shabaab has also claimed responsibility.

  

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