Kenyan president says terrorist attack over, militants dead
Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta has said that security forces have eliminated all four militants who attacked a popular hotel and office complex in Nairobi.
He also confirmed that 14 civilians were killed during the attack.
Speaking today, Wednesday, January 16, 2019, Kenyatta said that 14 “innocent lives” had been lost but over 700 civilians were safely evacuated.
According to the reports, the attack had started at about 3pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, with an explosion in the complex parking lot followed by a suicide bomb blast in the hotel’s foyer.
The police said that the assault on the compound in the centre of the Kenyan capital which contained restaurants, a spa and several office buildings housing international companies as well as the luxury hotel, was the most high-profile ...