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Two explosions at the Jazira Hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu have caused casualties, local radio has reported.
Police sources have said that six people were killed and another eight injured in the blasts.
The director of ambulance services, however, told Reuters that 11 people were killed and at least 17 injured.*
According to local radio reports, gunfire was heard shortly before two quickly successive explosions outside the hotel, often frequented by the country’s ministers.
The Associated Press quoted police sources which confirmed the explosions outside the hotel, located near Mogadishu’s international airport.
At press time, there were unconfirmed reports of a third explosion as casualties were being evacuated from the scene.
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Source: Agencies
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57 founding members, many of them prominent US allies, will sign into creation the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank on Monday, the first major global financial instrument independent from the Bretton Woods system.
Representatives of the countries will meet in Beijing on Monday to sign an agreement of the bank, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. All the five BRICS countries are also joining the new infrastructure investment bank.
The agreement on the $100 billion AIIB will then have to be ratified by the parliaments of the founding members, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a daily press briefing in Beijing.
The AIIB is also the first major multilateral development bank in a generation that provides an avenue for China to strengthen its presence in the world’s fastest-growing region.
The US and Japan have not applied for the membership in the AIIB.
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