Thai citizens will today Wednesday host a memorial service honouring 21 people killed in last week’s terror attack on the Dusit hotel complex, a firm owned by a multinational from the Southeast Asia country.
The memorial service in Bangkok, Thailand’s capital city, will start at 1pm (9am in Nairobi) and is expected that Kenyans living in the southeast Asian country will attend.
About 28 injured people were admitted to hospital, with many who suffered soft tissue injuries while fleeing from the scene of the attack treated and discharged from various hospitals.
One of the companies that was based at 14 Riverside Complex on Tuesday held a public memorial service in remembrance of six of their staff killed in the attack.
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in a message sent to President Uhuru Kenyatta last week condoled with the country.
“On behalf of the Government and the people of Thailand, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy and condolences to Your Excellency, and through you, to the bereaved families of those who were affected by this terrorist act,” he said.
The DusitD2 Hotel in Nairobi which was the scene of the latest terror attack last Tuesday is one of the 29 hotels and resorts owned by the Dusit Thani Group of companies, also known as Dusit International. The firm is a Thai multinational hospitality company.
Headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand, Dusit International was founded in 1948.
Of the 21 people killed during the deadly attack, Cellulant, an online payment provider in the region, suffered the largest number of fatalities.
During the attack on January 15, Al-Shabaab terrorists hurled grenades into cars, causing three of them to go up in flames.
One of them blew himself up outside Secret Garden Restaurant and the others damaged property inside buildings as they walked through the Grosvenor building at 14 Riverside Drive while shooting indiscriminately.
So far, four more people, including the mother of one of the terrorists killed in the gunfight during the attack, have been arraigned.