Her account Mogadishu hotel attack radical Islamist Shebab, which lasted 30 hours and ended last night (from Saturday to Sunday), reached 21 dead, the Somali Ministry of Health announced today.

“The Ministry of Health has confirmed that the death toll is 21 dead and 117 injured” in the attack on the Hyatt Hotel in the Somali capital that began Friday night, Minister Ali Haji Adan said.

This morning, rescuers were looking for survivors among the ruins, and around the hotel, cordoned off by law enforcement, experts were looking for possible explosive devices. The Hayat Hotel suffered extensive damage, with parts of it collapsing.

Friday’s attack was the first large-scale attack in Somalia since the country’s new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, took office in May.

The Shebab organization has been trying for more than 10 years to overthrow the government and create a state based on the laws of Islam, Sharia.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP, Reuters.}