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The Kenyan Interior Minister told the television that the police had occupied all the affected buildings of the hotel complex and shopping and office complex in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, which was targeted by an attack claimed by the group Islamic extremist Al-Shabaab.
But it is not clear whether what happened with the terrorist command and whether there will still be people surrounded inside the DusitD2 building, or how many deaths. There is no official estimate of the victims, but press agencies have released pictures that make it clear that there have been several deaths.
The attack began with a suicide bomber on a bench near the complex, according to Nairobi Police Chief Joseph Boinnet. The kamikaze detonation blew up three other vehicles in the parking lot of the complex.
The attack started with explosions, people who are experiencing the attack agree to leave the building – and those who are still barricaded inside and communicate with the outside by telephone cell phone and the Internet. "I saw four people with combat equipment," a witness quoted by the BBC reported. Attackers will have AK-47 and explosive machine guns, and they will shoot without hesitation, they report.
"We heard a loud sound and something was thrown in. And then I saw broken glass," Geoffrey Otieno, who works in a beauty salon in the hotel complex, told Reuters. "Let us hide ourselves until we are saved.
There will be at least six attackers and a vehicle with explosives will have been used, a diplomatic source Wall Street Journal. Thick smoke was seen coming out of the DusitD2 hotel. There are several anti-terrorist police units on the whole, trying to neutralize the terrorists who have advertised the attack in releases posted on Twitter.
"I started to feel shots and then I saw people running and raising their hands and some were entering the bank to hide," a bank employee in the area told Reuters.
"We have no idea what's going on, we've heard shots from various directions," said Simon Crump, who works in one of the building's offices, at AFP. He explained that several workers barricaded themselves in their rooms after hearing the explosions.
In 2013, Al-Shabaab militants attacked a shopping center in Nairobi, Westgate, and stayed there for several days. 71 people (including four attackers) died in a terrorist attack used by the Somali militia as a form of propaganda. They also attacked the University of Garissa, in northeastern Kenya, when 147 people died and dozens were wounded in 2015.
This new attack on Nairobi takes place exactly three years after another Al-Shabaab attack on a Kenyan military base in El-Adde, Somalia, where about 140 Kenyan soldiers have died, notes the guardian.
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