Somali hotel hit by twin blasts

Two bomb blasts at a hotel in the center of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, left an unspecified number of people dead and injured, police captain Mohamed Aloley said.

A car bomb exploded at the Central Hotel, followed by a suicide-bomber who struck the facility, Aloley said in an interview at the scene. He declined to give an estimate of casualties. The wounded include some lawmakers, he said.