Major attack on a luxury hotel in Nairobi

[malaise]

Last edited Tue Jan 15, 2019, 04:56 PM - Edit history (2)

https://abc7chicago.com/kenya-attack-gunfire-blast-at-nairobi-hotel-complex/5081752/

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Extremists launched a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya's capital Tuesday, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberated through the complex. A witness said he saw five bodies at the hotel entrance alone.

Al-Shabab - the Somalia-based Islamic extremist group that carried out the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi that left 67 people dead - claimed responsibility.

"It is terrible. What I have seen is terrible," said a man who ran from the scene, Charles Njenga.

As night fell, gunfire continued more than two hours after the first shots were heard at the complex, which includes the DusitD2 hotel, along with bars, restaurants, banks and offices. It was not clear how many attackers took part.

[malaise]

2. It's all Barr or Theresa May

not a word on US TV about this

[barbtries]

3. thank you Malaise.

you're the reason DU is still the place for the latest news.

[malaise]

4. Can you imagine an atrocity of this magnitude taking place in a Western country

and networks not breaking in with the real LATEST NEWS.

This planet is racist to the core. I have news for the planet - foreigners also died here along with other innocent African people.

[barbtries]

19. absolutely.

no, if this was london or paris or NY or Brussels it would be all over.

[Tipperary]

21. Do African countries break into their programming when we have a shooting?

[cwydro]

26. NBC reported it on the evening news.

Apparently very little is known at this point.

I’m sure more reports will come out.

[malaise]

34. ABC too - they said it was ongoing

but it seems to be under control now

[at140]

27. Couldn't agree more...

DU is the best place to get all important news.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. and the puppetrump show

[maxsolomon]

15. Then start one.

It just freaking happened, ghoul. And it's not 67 dead. Yet.

"Welcome to DU and Enjoy your stay".

[maxsolomon]

25. we all have issues. i've been to a therapist.

you're new and you're disrupting.

before we even know the story, you're politicizing and asserting that we care more about European deaths than Kenyan ones. maybe, but give people half a goddamn second to react.

alert on me if you don't like it. I'm happy to get my post deleted if others agree with you.

BTW, Democrats WON the election. you slipped.

[cwydro]

28. You're new here. Personal attacks are not allowed.

Not a good way to start.

[NurseJackie]

35. That poster has left the building.

[cwydro]

38. Wherever he's gone, perhaps he can study up on the election results.

He seemed confused.

[marble falls]

45. He can thumb through the old "How to Win Friends and Influence People" while he enjoys ...

his pizza.

[malaise]

30. The Democrats won the most recent election

and you really should delete that 67 dead.

Oh enjoy DU!

[cwydro]

31. Guess that's that!

And hell yeah, the Democrats won the last election!

Poster seemed a mite uninformed.

[malaise]

32. But but

bot

[cwydro]

33. Without a doubt.

And a poor one at that.

[Tipperary]

22. Wrong. nt

[cwydro]

29. Dude, your stats are from an earlier incident.

Facts are important.

[honest.abe]

5. I dont think that is correct. The 67 dead number is from the 2013 attack.

I have not seen any reports of numbers dead yet from this attack.

"We are aware that armed criminals are holing up in the hotel, and special forces are now currently flushing them out," said Kenya's national police chief, Joseph Boinnet, describing the assault as a suspected terror attack.

Boinnet gave no figures on the dead and wounded.

[malaise]

8. I added that without checking but the fact is the link I posted

said at least five dead and it would have been wall to wall coverage if this were London, Paris or anywhere in a Western country

[honest.abe]

10. No doubt.

Clearly the Western news orgs are distracted by other issues which seem to pale in comparison.

[malaise]

11. Barr and May

US and BBC

[honest.abe]

12. I had two colleagues that were at the shopping center that was attacked in 2013.

Fortunately they both got out unharmed.

[maryellen99]

6. The widow of one of the 7/7 bombers is allegedly part of Al Shabab

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Lewthwaite

[suffragette]

7. This looks to be very bad, but the "67 dead" is from the past attack on the mall. They don't yet

know how many died or were wounded at the hotel.

[malaise]

9. I deleted the figure

I should have checked myself because my link does not have that total

[suffragette]

18. Completely understandable with breaking news

about an horrific attack.

[cwydro]

13. CNN reporting 11 dead with it likely to rise.

67 dead in the previous attack some years ago.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. Just horrible.

Link to tweet

[Scurrilous]

17. ...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."

We have a military Africa Command, but I'm not sure how big its presence is. Its HQ is in Germany, if that means anything. I'm also not sure that our military/government has any interest in getting involved in Somalia again. The last adventure into Mogadishu didn't fare so well.

Africa is not often in the news. It sometimes seems we have decided to let China and Russia make the deals there, mine the ores, harvest the crops, pump the oil.

There is so much that could be done, but we seem to have a ham-fisted way of diplomacy, beginning with ill-planned regime changes.

I hope there is something we can give, if Kenya asks for help with this conflict.

[oasis]

23. Scary as hell.

[arthritisR_US]

36. A client of my daughter is beside herself

because her husband is staying in that hotel and he’s not answering his mobile and the Canadian Consulate has no word yet.

[malaise]

40. Holy Shit

Let's hope he evacuated in a hurry. I have good friend in Germany who has stayed in that hotel several times. He knows some staff folks.

[arthritisR_US]

44. When my daughter came rushing out her

office to tell I had the same reaction “holy shit”.

[JCMach1]

37. Wife had several friends who worked in the building

All are safe, but one is in one of the images making it out on the news wires...

[malaise]

41. Glad to hear they are safe

It's clearly a popular hotel

[JCMach1]

43. It's a whole building that includes the hotel. Her friends worked

For one of the banks housed there

[Eugene]

39. The Latest: Kenya: no more threat to public in hotel attack (at least 15 dead)

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Kenya: no more threat to public in hotel attack

10 minutes ago

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Latest on the attack on a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya (all times local):

4:10 a.m.

Kenya’s interior ministry says “no further threat to the public exists” in the Nairobi hotel attack, and that civilians who had been “secured” in one building have been safely evacuated.

A tweet early Wednesday morning says all buildings and the surrounding area are secure.

Kenyan authorities have not yet announced the fate of the attackers. At least four were seen on surveillance video storming the hotel on Tuesday afternoon.

The ministry simply says the “mopping-up process” continues.

At least 15 people have died, including one American.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/554be8fae3494fe3bc4fc9ca9e3591e3

[malaise]

42. Fifteen dead

Damn