Bomb blast caught on camera as Somali militants attack hotel
By Reuters
25 January 2017 |
9:16 am
A suspected suicide car bomb rammed into the gates of a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu before a secondary explosion was caught on camera as media had gathered to film the aftermath of the first attack.
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