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Workers still trapped after hotel attack

Vehicle at the parking lot of Dusit D2 Hotel in Nairobi, (Edward Kiplimo,Standard].

Grief-stricken families flocked to a morgue in Kenya early on Wednesday to identify the bodies of 15 people killed in a militant attack on a hotel complex, as workers still trapped 16 hours after the attack began pleaded for help.

Gunfire rang out again at the upscale hotel complex at 14 Riverside at around 6 a.m. and went on to erupt sporadically, a first responder told Reuters.

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