(CNN) -- At least 33 people were killed Tuesday when two men dressed in military uniforms stormed a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, detonating explosives and killing themselves, officials said.
Of the dead were six members of the Somali parliament, a government spokesman said. Three members of parliament were injured in the attack.
Journalists said the attackers committed suicide after government security forces surrounded the Muna Hotel, located near the presidential palace.
"Just before 11 a.m. two attackers, a gunman and a suicide bomber, gained access to a hotel in Mogadishu," according to Maj. Barigye Ba Hoku, spokesman for the African Union Mission in Somalia.
The assault on the hotel came as the death toll rose from some of the fiercest fighting in Somalia's capital in months.
An ambulance group reported having difficulty reaching the wounded, the director of that service has said. CNN
