12 hours of terror for hundreds who were trapped in city’s building

A woman is reunited with her family after her evacuation from DusitD2 compound in Nairobi after a blast followed by a gun battle rocked the upmarket hotel complex on January 15, 2019. [Afp]

The bridge at the junction of 14 Riverside Drive marked the final sprint to safety for Ezra Kimondo after a 12-hour ordeal in the building struck by terrorists on Tuesday afternoon.

Together with around 50 people, he was among the last batch to be rescued by the elite RECCE Squad yesterday at 4am from Grosvenor Building adjacent to the 14 Riverside Drive complex, where dusitD2 hotel is located.