Coffee vendor ‘recognises’ one of Kenya hotel attackers as client
A barista who was rescued after several hours trapped inside the Wetlands Nairobi Dusit hotel, after the terror attack on Tuesday said he recognised one of the attackers as a client, AFP new agency reports.
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“I knew one of them because he had a big scar on one of his hands,” he said. “I saw them. They shot six of my friends, four didn’t die but two succumbed.”
Meanwhile, Police in Kenya has asked a controversial politician, Steve Mbogo, to appear at a police station after he was pictured on Tuesday at the scene of the attack clad in a bullet-proof jacket and carrying an automatic weapon, Kenyan media report.
A United States man and two Kenyans of Somali descent: Feysal Rashid Haji and Abdalla Sheikh Mohamed Dahir are among the dead from the attack.
Kenyan-Somali MP Fatuma Gedi announced the deaths of Feysal Rashid Haji and Abdalla Sheikh Mohamed Dahir.
Mr Dahir worked as a communication specialist for Somalia Stability Fund and was having lunch with his friend Mr Haji when the al-Shabab militants opened fire.
Ms Gedi said in her Twitter post, “We will come out of this cowardly act stronger and more united as a nation.”
A witness, Hiram Macharia, a marketing executive at LG Electronics, told the Reuters news agency that after he heard the first explosion he tried to escape.
“I grabbed a fire extinguisher and we started going downstairs. Then we saw two of the attackers firing at the elevators and we turned back. We hid under desks in our office,” he told Reuters.
“They were firing twice at each of the elevator doors and the two staircase doors on each floor as they walked up the building. One of them fired at our office doors, entered slightly and then moved on.”