Just how much time did the perpetrators of the heinous acts at Dusit D2 hotel take to plan and execute their deadly attack?
Well, it seems like the planning was not a one day affair if reports from a waiter working at the hotel are anything to go by.
According to the waiter who was part of the people who were rescued by multi-agency security team effort on Tuesday night, one of the attackers is well known to him and he remembers him because he had a huge scar on his arm.
According to his testimony, the attackers had been to the hotel two days before the attack and he had served them coffee.
“I knew one of them because he had a big scar on one of his hands,” he said. “I saw them. They shot six of my friends, four didn’t die but two succumbed.” said the Waiter.
The attackers who spared him asked why Kenyan forces were killing ‘their brothers’ in Somalia before opening fire.
“Why are you killing our brothers and sisters in Somalia? They no longer attend Madrassa,” one of the attackers reportedly asked.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has in a presser from Statehouse confirmed that all the attackers have been brought down by the police and that the Operation is over.
The head of state has also confirmed that 700 civilians were evacuated from the complex.
“The security operation at Dusit is over and the terrorists eliminated. As of this moment, we have confirmation that 14 innocent lives were lost trough the hands of these murderous terrorists with other injured,” said Mr. Kenyatta in a televised address to a shocked nation.
The President said that security forces would seek out and arrest all those who were involved in the terrorist attack either by funding or facilitating the terrorists.
“We will seek out every person that was involved in the funding, planning and execution of this heinous act. We will pursue relentlessly wherever they will be until they are held to account,” he assured.