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62. On 4 May 2014, two improvised explosive devices exploded on buses in Nairobi, Kenya, killing three people and injuring sixty-two. [1][2] Both of the bombs exploded northeast of Nairobi on the Thika Road, an eight-lane controlled-access highway, and detonated 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) apart. Twenty of the wounded were in critical condition after ...
U.S. embassy in Nairobi after the explosion, with the collapsed Ufundi Building. The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in East African capital cities, one at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the ...
Eye in the Sky is a 2015 British thriller film starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, and Barkhad Abdi. [3] Directed by Gavin Hood and written by Guy Hibbert, the film explores the ethical challenges of drone warfare. Filming began in South Africa in September 2014. The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on ...
e. On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, [1] Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the number killed in the attack, since part of the mall collapsed due to a fire that started during the siege. [2] The attack resulted in 71 total deaths, [3] including 62 civilians, five ...
From late 2011 to 2014, Kenya experienced an upsurge in violent terrorist attacks. Kenyan government officials asserted that many of the murders and blasts were carried out by al-Shabaab in retaliation for Operation Linda Nchi, a coordinated military mission between the Somalian military and Kenyan military that began in October 2011, when troops from Kenya crossed the border into the conflict ...
OpenStreetMap view of attack location. On 16 May 2014, two improvised explosive devices were detonated simultaneously [3] in the Gikomba market in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 12 people and injuring 70. [4] [5] The first blast came from a minibus and the second from within the market. [1] Two people were reportedly arrested at the site of ...
The Nairobi police station bombing occurred in front of a police station in Nairobi, Kenya on 23 April 2014. The bomb killed at least 4 people including 2 police. [1] [2]
About Category:Terrorist incidents in Kenya in 2014 and related categories The scope of this category includes pages whose subjects relate to terrorism , a contentious label . Value-laden labels —such as calling an organization and/or individual a terrorist—may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable ...