Updated: November 01, 2015, 12:00 AM
Al Shabab attacks hotel in Somali capital - in pictures
Reuters photographer Feisal Omar, centre, who was injured in the explosion, is comforted by relatives at the Medina Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Sunday, November 1, 2015. Mohamed Sheikh Nor / Associated Press
A Somali policeman runs through the wreckage outside the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, on November 1, 2015. Farah Abdi Warsameh / Associated Press
A Somali policeman walks through rubble outside the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, on November 1, 2015. Farah Abdi Warsameh / Associated Press
Somali policemen carry a wounded person to an ambulance outside the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, on November 1, 2015. Farah Abdi Warsameh / Associated Press
Security officers stand in front of the Sahafi Hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on November 1, 2015, after a car bomb exploded. Attackers then stormed the hotel, exchanging gunfire with security guards. Al Shabab, a group linked to Al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack. Said Yusuf Warsame / EPA
People gather around the scene of a car bomb explosion in front of the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, on November 1, 2015. Said Yusuf Warsame / EPA