The al-Shabab terrorist group has not claimed responsibility for the attack, even though it is largely considered to be behind such attacks.
The attack is believed to have started with an explosion before gunmen penetrated the hotel's gates.
The Somalian government has blamed the al-Shabab extremist group for the explosion. The extremist group has links with Al-Qaeda.
Somalia hotel terror attack: The siege ended around midnight, police commissioner Abdi Hassan Hijar told reporters.
Somalia Hotel news: Earlier this week, the United States announced that its forces had killed 13 Al-Shabab fighters in an air raid in the central-southern part of the country.
"Residents informed us that militants were forcing them to pay taxes. Our army attacked the area. It was a tough battle, but we drove them out of the town and killed six of them," the military commander said. Our forces also razed two battle vehicles of militants.
A military official, on condition of anonymity, said several strikes hit an Al-Shabaab base in Berhani location, some 60 kilometre south of Kismayo, killing several senior terrorists, Xinhua reported.
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday expressed shock and deep sadness over the terrorist attack on a university campus in Kenya in which over 140 people were killed.In his message to his Kenyan counterpart
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