Terrorists identified as Al-Shabab militants attacked a Nairobi luxury hotel and office complex on Tuesday, spreading death and panic as the police sealed off the area and evacuated wounded civilians.
At least one person was confirmed killed and 15 wounded in the assault in the Kenyan capital, the authorities said, but the death toll appeared to higher based on news-service photographs taken at the scene showing at least four bodies splayed on a restaurant terrace. The KTN News Kenya service said at least five people were killed.
The police warned that some of the assailants, armed with guns and grenades, were still inside Nairobi’s 14 Riverside Drive complex, which includes the DusitD2 Hotel, part of a Thai-owned international chain.
The assault by the Al-Shabab, an Islamist extremist group with ties to Al Qaeda that has carried out many attacks in eastern Africa, came on the eve of a verdict in the trial of four men accused of helping the Shabab orchestrate a deadly assault on a Nairobi shopping mall five years ago.
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