A powerful car bomb killed at least five people on Sunday outside a popular hotel in central Somalia, police and witnesses said, in an attack claimed by the Al-Shabaab militant group. The blast injured 14 others and destroyed not just the hotel but adjacent buildings in Jowhar about 56 miles (90 kilometres) north of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Police said the attackers rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the outer wall of the Nur-doob hotel, popular with state lawmakers and other local officials. “They have killed five civilians, among them women working in the hotel and security gua…