“We wish to inform that, as of this evening… six other bodies were found at the scene and one police officer succumbed very suddenly to his injuries,” Joseph Boinnet told reporters.
He said the death included 16 Kenyans, one Briton, one American and three people of “African descent who are yet to be identified.”
Terrified people waited to be evacuated from an office block attached to the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi after a deadly attack by Islamist gunmen
KABIR DHANJI (AFP/File)
Security forces worked throughout the night to secure the DusitD2 compound, which includes a 101-room hotel, spa, restaurant and office buildings, after an attack claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists on Tuesday afternoon.
At least one suicide bomber blew himself up at the hotel while gunmen sprayed fire before engaging security forces and holing themselves up at the premises as civilians fled or barricaded themselves in their offices awaiting rescue.
Some of the casualties were said “to includes foreigners,” a police source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Among the dead was an American citizen, a State Department official said.
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