A SPANIARD is known to be among the injured in the Jihad attack on a luxury hotel in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi in which 22 people have been killed.
Ministry of foreign affairs sources say the Spanish embassy in Nairobi is closely following developments and is in touch with the injured man, who lives in the city and who is said not to be badly hurt as he was evacuated in time.
The attack on Tuesday in the early afternoon was described by witnesses as 'an explosion and shoot-out' at the 14 Riverside complex in the Westlands neighbourhood, where the top-of-the-range DusitD2 Hotel is based.
It is a venue for regular and numerous high-level conferences, says police inspector-general for Kenya, Joseph Boinnet, who revealed that the force is treating the blast as a terrorist attack.
The Somalian fundamentalist Islamic terrorist cell Al-Shabab – part of Al-Qaeda since 2012 - has claimed it is behind the bombing, making an announcement via its radio station Al-Andalus, and two key suspects have been arrested.
Among the 21 dead are 16 Kenyans, including a police officer who died in hospital from his injuries, one British and one US national, and three people of African origin who have not been identified and who may or may not be from Kenya.
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta says 'all the terrorists have been eliminated' and over 700 people evacuated from the hotel complex, and that his heart and 'that of everyone in Kenya' is with 'each and every innocent man and woman' affected by this 'senseless violence'.
Kenya's last Jihad terror attack was over five years ago when four members of Al-Shabab bombed the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, not far from the 14 Riverside complex, killing 67 people during the four days they barricaded themselves in the building.
Several tourists and expatriates were among the deceased.
Kenya's worst-ever terrorist attack was just over 20 years ago, when the US embassy was bombed, killing over 200 people and leaving thousands injured.
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