Terrorists 'eliminated' in Nairobi hotel shootout

Kenyan President Uhury Kenyatta has announced that the ‘terrorists’ behind an attack on a luxury hotel complex in Nairobi had been ‘eliminated’ and that more than 700 civilians had been evacuated to safety.

The Foreign Office has confirmed that a British man is among at least 14 people killed in the attack, in which four gunmen threw bombs at vehicles in the car park, before entering the lobby of the hotel complex, where one of the attackers blew himself up.

Al-Shabab - the Somalia-based Islamist extremist group that is allied to Al-Qaeda - has claimed responsibility for the carnage. Although President Kenyatta said 14 innocent people had been killed in the attack, the Kenyan Red Cross putting the number of dead at 24.