Fw: {UAH} Blasts and gunfire around Nairobi hotel
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Folks;
Sadly this is how the events took place:
3:48PM: Suspected terrorists arrive at dusitD2 Hotel on Riverside Drive, Nairobi in a silver 5-seater hatchback and walk toward security officers at the hotel's gate, where they throw an explosive at the security agents.
3:50PM: A loud bang resembling a grenade explosion is heard, with black smoke swelling and rising up into the air.
3:55PM: Three vehicles on fire spotted at the scene.
3:58PM: DCI George Kinoti and team arrive.
4PM: Social media awash with claims of occupants trapped in dusitD2 saying the facility is under attack. Armed law enforcement agents arrive at the facility.
4:05PM Rescue mission underway as a man sporting a red T-shirt and black pair of trousers is seen being moved away, with a gunshot wound in the back. He is bleeding profusely.
4:11PM: Students from Nairobi University, who reside in the nearby Chiromo hostels, are ordered to vacate the premises.
4:20PM: Those injured taken to Aga Khan Hospital
4:25PM: Ambulances with sirens arrive at scene.
4:25PM: Recce squad security officers advance into the hotel to try and neutralize the attackers.
4:30PM: Kenya Airforce team arrives at scene.
4:33PM: Firefighters arrive
4:36PM Recce officers gain access into the building.
4:40PM: Citizen TV reporter Francis Gachuri says 6 gunmen spotted by security agencies.
4:45PM: Abbas by Gullet, the Kenya Red Cross Secretary General, is seen entering the dusitD2 premises.
Edmund
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Edmund N Ayonga <eddieayonga@yahoo.com>
To: Google Inc. <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 5:43:37 PM GMT+3
Subject: Fw: {UAH} Blasts and gunfire around Nairobi hotel
Bobby;
My family and friends are all fine thank you. It doesn't look like a robbery.... it's a terror attack.
Today coincides with the terror attack in Somalia on KDF at El Ade! Yesterday as well a Westgate suspect was released but 3 committed to proceed with prosecution.
Edmund
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Bobby Alcantara <bobbyalcantara94@gmail.com>
To: ugandans-at-heart <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 5:13:52 PM GMT+3
Subject: {UAH} Blasts and gunfire around Nairobi hotel
Edmund,
I have just watched a live video of the armed robbery going on there in Nairobi !!! I hope you dont get caught up in the exchange of fire.
Bobby
Explosions and gunfire are being reported around a hotel complex in Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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