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Suspected serial killer Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, accused of murdering 42 women, escapes from police custody in Nairobi, Kenya.
2024-08-20

A gas truck explodes in a residential area of Nairobi, Kenya, killing three people and injuring 297 others.
2024-02-1

Multiple explosions and gunfire are reported after four armed men stormed the Dusit hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The Somalia-based militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
2019-01-15

Kenyan authorities say the death toll from Friday's collapsed "eight-story" residential building in Nairobi has risen to 20, with 73 people missing. Rescuers continue searching for survivors. The building had been declared unfit for human habitation by the country's National Construction Authority, but remained standing. "Note": the building was originally reported as six stories; flooding had sunk the ground and first floors.
2016-05-1

One person dies and at least 31 are injured when students and staff at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya, frantically try to escape after hearing nearby gunshots during an “approved safety and security simulation drill.” The Strathmore campus did not hear, before or during the test, that this was a drill. Tensions have been high at Kenyan schools since April when 139 were killed during a terrorist attack at Garissa University College. Many Kenyan universities have held security drills; six were hospitalized at the latest at Kenyatta University.
2015-11-30

A six-story building collapse in Nairobi, Kenya, kills one person and leaves several others injured.
2015-01-4

A car bomb detonates outside a police station in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 4 people.
2014-04-23

The death toll from the Westgate centre shooting in Nairobi, Kenya, reaches 59 with 175 injured.
2013-09-22

A large fire breaks out at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
2013-08-7

Several European countries summon their Kenyan ambassadors in a bid to determine why Kenya did not arrest President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir when he came to Nairobi for the new constitution ceremony.
2010-09-1