2009 Hotel Shamo bombing

2009 Hotel Shamo bombing
2009 Hotel Shamo bombing
	Location of Somalia in Africa
Location	Mogadishu, Somalia
Date	3 December 2009
Attack type	Suicide bombing
Deaths	25
Injured	60

The 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing was a suicide bombing at the Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 3 December 2009. The bombing killed 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government,^[1] and injured 60 more,^[2] making it the deadliest attack in Somalia since the Beledweyne bombing on 18 June 2009 that claimed more than 30 lives.^[3]

^ "4th minister dies of wounds". The Straits Times. 6 December 2009. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
^ "Somalia al-Shabab Islamists deny causing deadly bomb". BBC News. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
^ Guled, Abdi; Ibrahim Mohamed (4 December 2009). "Bomber kills 19 in Somalia". National Post. Retrieved 4 December 2009.^{[permanent dead link]}