At least 25 people are reported to have been killed in an attack on a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
Gunmen stormed the Central Hotel after a car and suicide bomb exploded at the fortified building near the presidential palace.
Clouds of black smoke could be seen pouring from the hotel.
Reports say the deputy major of Mogadishu and an MP were among those killed.
The deputy prime minister and minister of transport are reported to have been injured.
A presidential official said the death toll was likely to rise because some of the people hurt had bad injuries.
"The building was badly hit, the explosion was very big," said a policeman. "There were very many wounded people too, many of them seriously."
Islamist fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab militant group said they had carried out the attack.
"Our fighters attacked the Central Hotel," spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP. "The aim is to kill the apostate officials."
The rebels are fighting to overthrow the government and have launched a number of attacks on targets with international connections.
These have included attacks on hotels, the international airport, the presidential palace Villa Somalia and a UN compound.
The fighters say they are attacking government officials because they are allowing the deployment of foreign African Union troops in Somalia.
The latest attack comes a month after a suicide bomber blew up a car at the SYL hotel, a day before a planned visit from Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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