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		</div><p>The death toll from a car bombing and clashes between security forces and gunmen near a hotel in Somalia’s capital has risen to 18, police said.</p>
<p>At least 40 others were injured in the attack near a hotel and a judge’s residence on a busy street in Mogadishu, police Captain Mohamed Hussein said.</p>
<p>Security forces were still fighting to neutralise some militants holed up inside a building close to the Maka Almukarramah hotel, which the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab said had been the target.</p>
<figure id="attachment_126973" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-126973" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EC8375ED-40CC-4A23-8463-CC7C2F409C3D.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-126973" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EC8375ED-40CC-4A23-8463-CC7C2F409C3D.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-126973" class="wp-caption-text">Residents walk near a destroyed building after a car bomb in Mogadishu</figcaption></figure>
<p>He said the death toll could rise as many of the wounded are still being treated in hospitals.</p>
<p>Many victims of Thursday’s attack suffered horrific injuries and hospitals were said to be struggling to cope with causalities.</p>
<p>Some of the wounded lost limbs, said Sadiya Yusuf, a nurse at Daru Shifa, one of the hospitals treating victims.</p>
<p>The Maka Almukarramah hotel is frequently used by government officials, and al-Shabab has targeted it multiple times in past attacks that have killed scores of people.</p>
<p>The US has dramatically increased airstrikes against al-Shabab since President Donald Trump took office.</p>
<p>The US military command for the African continent reported carrying out 50 strikes in Somalia in 2018.</p>
<p>This year, US strikes targeting al-Shabab fighters have come at an even faster pace.</p>
<p>The military command in Africa reported 23 as of Tuesday, including one in central Somalia that killed 20 militants and another the day before that killed 35.</p>
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