On 23 October 2022, al-Shabaab killed at least eight people in a bombing and shooting attack at a hotel in Kismayo, Somalia.
[2] Al-Shabaab often use bombs and guns to attack military and civilian targets, including many hotels.
[1][2] These include a suicide car bombing and mass shooting at the Asasey Hotel in Kismayo in 2019, in which they killed 26 people.
[2] At 12:45 pm on 23 October 2022, a suicide car bomber rammed the entrance gate of the Tawakal Hotel in Kismayo, a port city in Jubaland, in the far south of Somalia.
[1][2] Three al-Shabaab gunmen continued the attack inside the hotel for fifteen hours until they were shot dead by security forces.