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Asasey Hotel attack | |
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Location | Asasey Hotel, Kismayo, Jubaland, Somalia |
Date | 12 July 2019 (UTC+03:00) |
Attack type | Suicide car bombing, shooting |
Weapons | Car bomb, guns |
Deaths | 26[1] |
Injured | 56[1] |
Perpetrator | Five al-Shabaab members |
On 12 July 2019, four al-Shabaab gunmen attacked the Asasey Hotel in Kismayo, Jubaland, Somalia, after another attacker breached the gate with a car bomb. The terrorist attack on the Asasey Hotel began with a car bomb explosion, followed by gunmen storming the hotel. Hodan Nalayeh, a Somali-Canadian journalist known for her work promoting positive stories about Somalia, was among the victims, along with her husband and several others.
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