No Bangladeshi national in Nairobi was hurt in the Saturday’s terrorist attack on an upscale shopping mall in Kenya’s capital.
Shameem Ahsan, director general of the foreign ministry, by sending a text message on a phone said: “Our high commission in Nairobi informs that no Bangladeshi national has been affected by the recent terrorist attack at the Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi.”
About 150 Bangladeshis are now living in Kenya, he added.
Kenya government suspecting that Al Qaeda-linked Somali al-Shabab movement’s activists made the deadly attack.
International media reports, at least 59 died, including children and several foreigners, while 175 people have been injured in the attack. Some civilians are still trapped, either as hostages or in hiding in the building of the mall.
