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This incident was the country's worst terrorist attack since the 1998 United States embassy bombings, which left over 200 people dead. Location. The attack occurred at the 14 Riverside Drive complex in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. This is an upscale hotel and office complex which hosts the DusitD2 Hotel and the Commission on Revenue Allocation.
On 31 December 1980, New Year's Eve, a bomb exploded in The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. It partially destroyed the hotel, killing 20 people and wounding another 87. The owner of the hotel was a prominent member of the local Jewish community, and it has been suggested that the attack was in retaliation for Kenya providing support to rescue ...
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 two Capital East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Latest on the extremist attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya (all times local):
Here's a rough timeline of what occurred in the deadly attack on a luxury hotel complex in Kenya's capital. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It began with cars exploding and several armed young men, wrapped ...
v. t. e. On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, [4] 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. [5] The attack resulted in 71 total deaths, [6] including 62 civilians ...
Jason Spindler, co-founder of a business investment company and survivor of 9/11, was identified Wednesday as 1 of 21 victims in the terrorist attack. Death toll in Nairobi attack climbs to 21 ...
Many terrorist attacks have occurred in Kenya during the 20th and 21st centuries. [1] In 1980, the Jewish -owned Norfolk hotel was attacked by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1998, the US embassy was bombed in Nairobi, as was the Israeli -owned Paradise hotel in 2002 in Mombasa.