POLICE in Somalia reported on Saturday that 32 people had died and 63 others were wounded in an attack on a Mogadishu beach hotel the previous evening.

Al-Qaida’s east Africa affiliate, al-Shabab, claimed through its radio station that its fighters carried out the attack in the capital.

Police spokesperson Major Abdifatah Adan Hassan told journalists that one soldier was killed and another wounded, while the rest of the dead were civilians.