2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege

On 14 March 2024, a suicide bomber affiliated with al-Shabaab detonated a device outside the SYL hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia.^[1] Three guards and two security forces were reported killed.^[2] Five gunmen then stormed the hotel in a 13-hour siege, causing a gunfight with the army which resulted in the deaths of three soldiers and the six attackers.^[3] Twenty-seven other people were wounded.^[4] The hotel is located close to the Presidential Palace.^[5] The location makes it popular with government officials.^[6]

2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege
Part of the Somali Civil War
Location	SYL Hotel, Mogadishu, Somalia
Date	14 March 2024 (2024-03-14)
Target	Government officials
Attack type	Bombing, siege, shootout
Deaths	14 (including 6 perpetrators)
Injured	27
Perpetrators	Al-Shabaab