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JKIA fire unmasked false security behind airport ‘reforms’

Fifteen years to the day al-Qaida terrorists bombed the American Embassy in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam leaving 212 people dead and hundreds wounded, Kenya’s emergency response team was, again, caught flat-footed yesterday following a fire at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Although it is too early to determine exactly what caused the fire, early indications are that the airport did not have the necessary capacity to handle the emergency.

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