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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 ...
Qaddura Mohammed Abd Al-Hamid. 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. [3] [4] [5] [1] [2]
2019 Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack. / 1.27000°S 36.80361°E / -1.27000; 36.80361. The 2019 DusitD2 complex attack was a terrorist attack that occurred from 15 to 16 January 2019 in the Westlands area of Nairobi, Kenya, which left 22 civilians and all five terrorists dead. [7] [8] [9] [10]
Kenya portal. v. t. e. On 2 April 2015, gunmen stormed the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, killing 148 people, [1] [2] and injuring at least 79. The militant groups Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab, which the gunmen claimed to belong to, took responsibility for the attack. [3] The gunmen took over 700 students hostage, freeing Muslims and ...
President Joe Biden welcomed Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House for a three-day state visit and designating the East African nation a major non-NATO ally as it prepares to deploy ...
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.
The attack has been credited to al-Qaeda by the government of Saudi Arabia although Osama bin Laden never took credit for the bombing. 1998. In August 1998, Al-Qaeda operatives carried out the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people and injuring more than 5,000 others. 2000s
April 30, 2024 at 5:47 AM. Excavations in northeastern Egypt recently unearthed the ruins of a 3,400-year-old building fit for a king — literally. Archaeologists found the ruined house at the ...