2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege

{{Infobox civilian attack

| title = 2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege

| location = SYL Hotel, Mogadishu, Somalia

| date = {{start date|2024|3|14|df=yes}}

| partof = the Somali Civil War

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| target = Government officials

| type = Bombing, siege, shootout

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| fatalities = 14 (including 6 perpetrators)

| injuries = 27

| perpetrators = Al-Shabaab

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On 14 March 2024, a suicide bomber affiliated with al-Shabaab detonated a device outside the SYL hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-14 |title=Al-Shabab attacks hotel in Somali capital |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68569023 |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB |archive-date=2024-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314235313/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68569023 |url-status=live }} Three guards and two security forces were reported killed.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-15 |title=All 5 attackers killed, ending Somalia hotel siege in which 3 soldiers died |url=https://apnews.com/article/somalia-syl-hotel-attack-alshabab-7a9bdd2dd1da050e942819afe2ba4b4a |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=AP News |language=en |archive-date=2024-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315150956/https://apnews.com/article/somalia-syl-hotel-attack-alshabab-7a9bdd2dd1da050e942819afe2ba4b4a |url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite web |last=AfricaNews |date=15 March 2024 |title=All 5 attackers killed, ending Somalia hotel siege in which 3 soldiers died |url=https://www.africanews.com/2024/03/15/all-5-attackers-killed-ending-somalia-hotel-siege-in-which-3-soldiers-died/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Africanews |language=en |archive-date=2024-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315153911/https://www.africanews.com/2024/03/15/all-5-attackers-killed-ending-somalia-hotel-siege-in-which-3-soldiers-died/ |url-status=live }} Twenty-seven other people were wounded.{{Cite web |title=Three soldiers die in hotel attack in Somali capital: police |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/somali-security-forces-neutralize-hotel-attackers-national-tv-says-2024-03-15/ |website=Reuters}} The hotel is located close to the Presidential Palace.{{Cite news |date=2024-03-15 |title=All 5 attackers killed, ending Somalia hotel siege in which 3 soldiers died |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/15/somalia-syl-hotel-attack-alshabab/478c9b0e-e2cd-11ee-95aa-7384336086f3_story.html |access-date=2024-03-15 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} The location makes it popular with government officials.{{Cite web |title=Al-Shabab fighters killed as overnight siege of Mogadishu hotel ends |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/15/al-shabab-fighters-killed-as-overnight-siege-of-mogadishu-hotel-ends |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en |archive-date=2024-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315120755/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/15/al-shabab-fighters-killed-as-overnight-siege-of-mogadishu-hotel-ends |url-status=live }}