The Kenya Red Cross on Thursday said all people missing after an attack on a Nairobi hotel complex had now been accounted for.
“All the 94 tracing cases have been closed positively as of today 1230hrs,” it said in a statement.
Tuesday’s attack by Somali militants killed 21 people at the 14 Riverside Drive hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital.
Al Shabaab, a Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate fighting to impose strict Islamic law, said it carried the assault on the upscale dusitD2 compound over U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday said that a 20-hour siege had ended with security forces killing all the Somali militants who had stormed the hotel complex, driving hundreds of people into terrifying escapes.
The Red Cross had on Wednesday put the number of those unaccounted for at 50.
In a statement some hours later, it said the number of people still unaccounted for had dropped to 19.
Kenya, the East African hub for multinational companies and the UN, became a frequent target for al Shabaab after Kenya sent troops into neighbouring Somalia in 2011 to try to create a buffer zone along its border.
In a two-page statement claiming responsibility for the attack, al Shabaab did not spell out why it had chosen to hit Kenya over Trump’s December 2017 decision on Jerusalem.
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