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                 Car Bombs Kill 8 Outside Major Mogadishu Hotel

   VIDEO: Reuters TV Scripts 3 - 1/1/2014 5:04:35 PM - SOMALIA-BLASTS
   AFTERMATH
   Three car bombs have killed at least eight people outside a major hotel
   used by foreigners in Mogadishu, Somalia.
   Government security forces and African Union peacekeepers sealed off
   the streets around the Jazeera hotel Wednesday. Two bombs went off in
   quick succession near the hotel gate. The third blast came a bit later.
   Witnesses say they heard gunfire after the first explosion.
   No one has claimed responsibility for the bombings. The Somali militant
   Islamist group al-Shabab has carried out similar attacks in Mogadishu
   over the past two years.
   The Jazeera hotel is near the Mogadishu airport and the offices of the
   U.N. Development Program, which al-Shabab attacked last year.
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