Six MPs among 32 killed in Somali hotel - Yahoo! News: "MOGADISHU (AFP) – Islamist militants shot dead 30 people, including six members of parliament in a suicide attack on a Mogadishu hotel Tuesday, Somalia's deputy prime minister said.
The two militants from the Shebab insurgency disguised as government security forces then blew themselves up to avoid arrest after the attack on the hotel which was crowded with Somali officials.
'Thirty people died in this ambush. Six of them are members of the Somali parliament and four are Somali government civil servants,' Abdirahman Haji Adan Ibbi told reporters after the deadly rampage at Hotel Mona.
'The 20 others are innocent civilians who died in this horrible incident,' he added.
An official and witnesses told an AFP reporter on the scene that two fighters from Shebab disguised as government security forces smuggled themselves into the hotel and sprayed gunfire on its occupants.
'They detonated the suicide vests they were wearing when our forces surrounded the hotel,' he said on condition of anonymity.
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