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MOGADISHU, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Unknown assailants on Friday fired a rocket into a hotel in north Mogadishu where senior government officials were staying in the latest post-war violence in the chaotic Somali capital, security officials said.

"It struck the reception, breaking windows there. Definitely, there must be people who are wounded," one official told Reuters by telephone of the strike on the Global Hotel.

Since Islamists were ousted over the New Year during an offensive by Somali government and Ethiopian forces, there have been near-daily mortar, rocket and gun attacks in the city.

Civilians have mainly been the victims.

Among officials in the hotel hit on Friday was the deputy speaker of Somalia's parliament, authorities said.

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