Lawmakers Among Victims In Al-Shabaab Suicide Assault

Al-Shabaab terrorists stormed a hotel near Somalia's presidential palace in Mogadishu on Tuesday, the BBC reports.

The suicide attack came on the second day of an Islamist offensive in the capital, an African Union spokesman said.

Six members of Parliament were killed in the attack, reported Agence France-Presse.

The attackers, disguised as government soldiers, killed a guard at the Muna hotel before one of them blew himself up, said the A.U. spokesman. At least 15 people...