Cabays -(Moqadishu) – Somalia’s deputy prime minister, Mohamed Omar Arte is flown to Turkey for bid to safe his life after sustaining serious injuries believed to be life threatening in yesterday’s deadly attack on a mosques in one of Moqadishu’s biggest hotel.

Reports from the war ravaged capital of Somalia say Turkish doctors in Moqadishu’s Digfeer Hospital were struggling last night to keep alive Mohamed Omar Arte who is among the casualties in the attack with two suicide bombers detonated powerful bombers completely destroyed the mosque and a big section of the hotel.

In the meantime there are reports on the identity of the attackers and Somalia’s intelligence believe both suicide bombers — a man and a woman — were Dutch-Somali citizens who infiltrated the Central Hotel close to the presidential palace ahead of the attack.

Sources within the Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said the man, identified as Ismail Muse, exploded a bomb in a car parked at the entrance of the Hostel’s mosque while the woman, Lula Ahmed Dahir, detonated her explosive vest inside the prayer room. But there are no confirmation of the true identity of the attackers and some reports suggest the attackers were part of the security guards at the hotel.

The death toll has reached twenty five and the number of injuries more than thirty six people. This is one of the deadliest attacks in Moqadishu since last December.

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