(MENAFN- QNA) Six civilians and four militants were killed in an attack by Al Shabab militant movement on Hotel Weheliye in central Mogadishu on Friday.

Three gunmen were killed as they broke into the hotel while a fourth blew himself off inside a car bomb that targeted the hotel's gate, police sources said.

Al Shabab movement claimed responsibility of the attack, saying that its militants also besiege Siyaad Hotel in the same central district of the capital. The al-Qaeda-affiliated movement was established in 2004 and, since then, has been waging a deadly campaign of suicide attacks against the government and state institutions as well as foreign diplomatic missions and neighboring countries.