The real face of riverside ruthless terrorists as caught on CCTV

Kenyan forces hunted for the gunmen who stormed an upmarket hotel and office complex in the capital, reportedly killing at least six people in the first apparent major attack by an al-Qaeda affiliate in the East African nation in almost four years.

The attack on 14 Riverside Drive in Nairobi began with an explosion targeting three vehicles in the parking lot and then a suicide-bombing in the foyer of a Dusit Hotels & Resorts Co. outlet, police Inspector-General Joseph Boinnet said Tuesday in a televised briefing.

A CCTV footage has now emerged showing how four heavily armed attackers stormed the 14 Riverside Drive Dusit2 hotel.

A shocking video obtained by the news rooms  shows three of the gunmen dressed in black tops with green vests and Ak47 rifles who stormed 14 Riverside Drive in Nairobi .

In the footage, the suspected terrorists are seen signalling one another to take different positions as they fired indiscriminately to anyone on sight.

Minutes later, all the four attackers are seen in a different angle as they make their way to the hotel.

Two of them open fire at a white jeep which was at the parking lot.A cctv photo of one of the terrorists. COURTESY

They then split themselves into two groups and walked towards the hotel from different directions.

“We have secured all the buildings that had been affected by these events,” Interior Secretary Fred Matiang’i said in a separate briefing. “We are now in the final stages of mopping up the area and securing evidence and documenting the consequences of these unfortunate events.’’

He didn’t say what had happened to the attackers, whom he described as “suspected terrorist elements,” nor give a death toll.

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Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda based in neighboring Somalia, said it killed 47 people in the attack, according to Radio Andalus, a broadcaster that supports its insurgency. The group didn’t say how it obtained the figure, but if its involvement was confirmed it would be the Islamists’ first significant assault in Kenya since a raid on a university campus in Garissa county in April 2015 that killed at least 147 people.

The group has vowed to keep attacking Kenya as long as it maintains soldiers in Somalia, where it’s part of an African Union mission. A survivor of the attack who gave his name as Reuben told local Citizen TV that he heard the gunmen accuse Kenya of killing “our people in Somalia” and “ruining our way of life.”

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