Grief-stricken Kenyans flocked to a morgue in Nairobi, on Wednesday to look for loved ones among at least 15 people killed in a militant attack on a hotel complex, as workers still trapped pleaded for help.
The attack on the upscale hotel complex at 14 Riverside, by at least four gunmen, began shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday with an explosion in the parking lot and then a suicide bomb blast in the foyer of the dusitD2 Hotel, according to police report.
Somali militant group Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility.
Reliable sources indicate that as dawn broke on Wednesday, gunfire rang out again and went on to erupt sporadically.
Many of the victims had been dining in the Secret Garden restaurant and lay slumped at their tables.
Eleven Kenyans, an American and a Briton were among the casualties, morgue staff said. Two victims had not been identified.
Blasts and shots had punctuated the night, undercutting assurances from the interior minister late on Tuesday that the scene had been secured, and complicating the rescue of scores of people trapped inside.
