Two explosions and gunfire were heard at an upscale hotel and office complex in Kenya‘s capital on Wednesday afternoon, said a woman working in a neighbouring building.
“We are under attack,” another person in an office inside a complex in the Dusit hotel told the Reuters news agency, then hung up. Local television showed smoke rising from the area.
The Nairobi police commander Philip Ndolo said they had cordoned off the area around Riverside Drive due to a suspected robbery.
Flames and plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky from the parking lot of the compound where several vehicles were on fire, with scores of people fleeing the compound, some of them lightly injured.
Somalia-based armed group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.
“We are currently conducting an operation in Nairobi.” the group’s military operations spokesman told Al Jazeera.
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