Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 10 in Mogadishu Hotel

Shells of vehicles burn outside the Maka Al-Mukarama hotel in the Somalia capital, Mogadishu, on Feb. 28, 2019, after a car bomb exploded, killing at least five people and wounding 25 others. Abdirazak Hussein Farah/AFP/Getty Images

MOGADISHU—A suicide car bombing targeting a Mogadishu hotel by the terrorist group Al Shabaab on Thursday, Feb. 28, killed at least 10 people and destroyed buildings in the Somali capital’s busiest street, police said.

It was one of the heaviest blasts to have hit Mogadishu in recent times.