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  • 21 deaths after: military end Somali Hotel siege

    21 deaths after: military end Somali Hotel siege

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    Military forces have ended a siege by al Qaeda-linked militants at a hotel in Somalia’s capital in which no fewer than 21 people were killed and dozens injured, authorities said on Sunday. Dozens of people who had been taken hostage in the stand-off at the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu were freed. Elite armed forces battled…