An AFP photographer saw the bodies of five dead, slumped over tables on a restaurant terrace in the complex. ShabaabThe attack at DusitD2 is the first in Nairobi since gunmen stormed the city's Westgate shopping mall in 2013, killing at least 67 people. On April 2, 2015, another Shabaab attack killed 148 people at the university in Garissa, eastern Kenya. "This attack on Nairobi hotel came as Kenyans and their media are commemorating (the) El Adde attack," it said. The Shabaab claimed it killed more than 200 soldiers in that assault.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 16, 2019 01:41 UTC