FILE PHOTO: Workers stand at the sea port of the coastal town of Kismayu in southern Somalia November 12, 2013. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/File Photo
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia's port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers had been discussing an upcoming regional election and was followed by gunfire, police said, adding that the death toll could be high.
A journalists' group said it had confirmed two reporters among the dead.
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