The very sad thing about this attack is that the botched attack about a month ago on the same hotel was exactly the same.
In the previous attack an explosive laden vehicle was also driven at the back gate but it failed to explode on impact, the occupants of the car threw a hand grenade towards the guards that failed to explode also but took advantage of the commotion to excape on foot into siigale area where one was killed and the other captured.
At the same time a Pickup truck laden with over 12 armed men which was closely following the explosive car [To penetrate after initial explosion] after realizing the failure of the plan made a U-turn coming under direct fire of the bodyguards of Xussein Macalin Senior Security Advisor to HSM [Brother to Xil. Xasan Macalin Head of Daljir Party] who was in the hotel at the time.
The following day some of the injured men where traced to a safe house in Taleex area.
As you can see the same method was used again to attack the hotel again, the only difference is that they used an SNA vehicle to get as close as possible before detonating the car.
