Kenyan hotel siege ends, claims 14 lives

Nairobi: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday said a deadly attack by terrorists on an upscale hotel and office complex in the capital that left at least 14 civilians dead was over and all the attackers had been “eliminated”. Somali-based Al-Shabab terrorists struck the DusitD2 hotel compound, an upmarket cluster of shops and several offices in Nairobi’s affluent Westlands neighbourhood on Tuesday afternoon. More than 700 hotel guests and office workers were evacuated, Kenyatta said in a televised address. “We can confirm that 14 innocent lives were lost at the hands of these murderous terrorists, with others injured,” Kenyatta said. Kenya’s police chief Joseph Boinnet said the coordinated assault began at 3 p.m (local time) on Tuesday with an explosion that targeted three vehicles outside a bank, followed by a suicide blast in the foyer of the Dusit hotel, CNN reported. (IANS)

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