Hiiraan Online
Tuesday January 15, 2019
Security forces point their weapons through a shattered door behind which an unexploded grenade lies. (Ben Curtis/Associated Press)
Al-shabaab terrorists on Tuesday afternoon stormed at the 14 Riverside place in Kenya where they held members of the public on hostage.
According to Kenyan government the attack started by a suicide bomber as four gun men who arrived in a grey Ractis toyota were also shooting at guards on the premises entrance.
Information reaching Hiiran online is that so far over 10 people have been confirmed dead with over 60 getting injuries.
Sources at the premises say that gunshots rendered the air for long as people started wailing and screaming. "The attackers were shooting at anyone on sight, and that is how I jumped into my hiding place," a survivor told Hiiran online.
The militants held people hostage for over six hours as they engaged the police in gun shots.
Internal Security minister in Kenya Dr Fred Matiang'i in a press conference said that the area had been secured by a special unit of combined officers under the command of GSU commandant.
"We are now in the final stages of mopping the area so as we take evidence," he told journalists in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.
Al- Shabaab by 6 PM had claimed responsibility without elaborating why they settled for Riverside place as their target.
The United States of America also asked it's citizens who are in Kenya to be highly cautious.