15–16 January 2019 (2019-01-16) 15:00 (EAT (UTC+3))
Attack type
Suicide bombing and mass shootings
Weapons
AK 47, Type 56-2, AK-63, explosives, F1 Grenade (attackers) H&K G3, Colt Canada C7, FN SCAR, CZ Scorpion EVO 3 (defenders)[1][2][3][4]
Deaths
22 (plus 5 attackers)[5][6]
Injured
27[5]
Perpetrators
Al-Shabaab
Motive
Opposition to Kenyan involvement in the Somali Civil War and Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital
200m 220yds
Attack location
OpenStreetMap view of attack location
The 2019 DusitD2 complex attack was a terrorist attack that occurred from 15 to 16 January 2019 in the Westlands area of Nairobi, Kenya, which left 22 civilians and all five terrorists dead.[7][8][9][10]
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