A British person is among the dead at a luxury hotel in Kenya where Islamist terrorists launched an attack yesterday. They are one of 14 people killed at the DusitD2 hotel complex in Nairobi. Kenyan authorities said yesterday that the situation had been brought under control but first responders say gunshots were heard at 4am (GMT) today.
Al-Shabab – the Somalia-based group that carried out the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi that left 67 people dead – claimed responsibility for the bloodshed. Police said: ‘The area around 14 Riverside Drive is a Crime Scene … under an active security operation. Many of the victims had been dining in the Secret Garden restaurant and lay slumped at their tables. Eleven Kenyans, an American and a Briton were among the casualties, morgue staff said. Two victims had not been identified. Blasts and shots had punctuated the night, undercutting assurances from the interior minister late on Tuesday that the scene had been secured, and complicating the rescue of scores of people trapped inside.
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