The June 2016 Mogadishu attacks were two similar attacks on hotels that occurred in Mogadishu, Somalia on 1 June and 25 June 2016. Dozens of people were killed in the attacks and many more were wounded.
The Ambassador Hotel was targeted on 1 June, and the Hotel Naso-Hablod on 25 June.
| 1 June 2016 Mogadishu attack | |
| Partof: | War in Somalia (2009–present) |
| Target: | Ambassador Hotel |
| Date: | – |
| Type: | Car bombing, suicide bombing shooting, hostage-taking |
| Fatalities: | 16 victims[1] 3 terrorists |
| Injuries: | 55 |
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| Numparts: | 3 |
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The attack came shortly after Somali officials announced that they had killed senior Al-Shabaab member Mohamed Kuno, who is believed to have been the mastermind behind the Garissa University attack. 16 other militants were killed along with Kuno.[2]
The attack involved at least three attackers, one of whom was killed detonating the car bomb and the other two died after being shot by police inside the hotel.[3] Most of the victims were pedestrians and drivers on the road on which the car bomb exploded.[4] Also among the deceased victims included two Somali MPs: Abdullahi Jama Kabaweyne and Mohamoud Mohamed Gure.[5]
The attack is one in a long list of hotel attacks committed by al-Shabaab in Mogadishu since 2015.
The attack occurred shortly before Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was supposed to arrive in a hotel along the same road as the Hotel Ambassador.[6]
| 25 June 2016 Mogadishu attack | |
| Partof: | War in Somalia (2009–present) |
| Target: | Naso-Hablod hotel |
| Type: | Suicide bombing, car bombing, hostage-taking |
| Fatalities: | 15+ (including attackers) |
| Injuries: | 25+ |
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| Numparts: | 4+ |
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On 25 June 2016, Al-Shabaab conducted a similar attack on another hotel in Mogadishu. A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the hotel, after which gunmen stormed the hotel and took hostages before being killed in a shootout with police. At least 15 people were killed, including State Environment Minister Bur’i Mohamed Hamza, and more than 25 were injured.[7]
The hotel attacked was the Naso-Hablod hotel, which is frequented by tourists and politicians. At least four men were involved in the attack.[8] The victims were mostly civilians on the street where the car bomb exploded, but also included some of the hotel's security guards.
| 30 June 2016 Mogadishu attack | |
| Partof: | War in Somalia (2009–present) |
| Location: | Lafoole, Mogadishu, Somalia |
| Date: | 30 June 2016 |
| Type: | Bombing |
| Fatalities: | at least 20 |
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-->}} On 30 June 2016, at least 20 civilians were killed when a roadside bomb went off in Lafoole town, southwest of Mogadishu, blowing up a packed mini-bus that was passing by. Although no group claim responsibility, Al-Shabaab is suspected.[9]