How Dusit D2 attackers monitored the hotel for weeks

Details have surfaced of how suspected terrorists spied Dusit D2 hotel in Riverside before the Tuesday attack.

James Maina, a guard at the building, told Standard that the attackers were not new to the facility.

The men had been visiting the hotel for some time and would park a silver Toyota Ractis and ask Maina and his colleagues to keep watch.

They would then emerge with take-away coffee and drive off.“It was a routine that continued for like two weeks,” he remarked.

The suspects would tip them with “some few hundreds… like one day he (one of the supposed suspects) tipped my friend Ksh400.”

The guard, however, never mastered the suspects’ faces, as they always wore caps.

On Tuesday, the same men returned at around 3pm and did not park as they usually did instead they went direct to Dusit D2.

It was at the hotel’s first security barrier that the confrontation ensued.

“It’s like they had some explosives or something. Two of them stepped out and suddenly an explosion was heard, followed by gunshots and it all turned chaotic,” an eye witness recalled.

The explosives are suspected to be grenades the men had in the car.

It is reported they might have detonated them at the gate, setting cars parked nearby on fire before gaining entry to the hotel.

At least 15 people have been killed and 30 others injured following a suspected terrorist attack on  Dusit D2 Hotel, Riverside Nairobi.

Identification papers indicated that 11 were Kenyan, one was American and one was British, he said. The other two were not carrying documents.

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