U. S. renews travel caution after mall attack in Kenya

Email|Print|Comments       twitter     facebook     Sina Microblog     reddit    

NAIROBI, Sept. 28 -- The U.S. government has renewed its travel alert against trips to Kenya, warning Americans of the risks after the recent terror attack that killed 67 people in the East African country.

"The levels of risk vary throughout the country. Terrorist acts can include suicide operations, bombings, kidnappings, attacks on civil aviation, and attacks on maritime vessels in or near Kenyan ports," the State Department said in a statement received here on Saturday.

A group of gunmen of Somalia-based Al-Shabaab stormed the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi a week ago, causing the heaviest casualties since the U. S. Embassy in Kenya was attacked in 1998.

Kenyan officials have appealed to the international community not to issue travel advisories against their country, but to work with the government to ensure the return of normalcy.

• Kenya's president says won't be cowed by terrorists
• Kenya urged to use community policing policy to detect terrorists
• Foreign experts probe Kenya mall attack
• Indian artist makes sand sculpture condemning Kenyan terror attack
• Kenya defeats terrorists after four-day siege
• Kenya in last-ditch effort to rescue hostages in mall attack
• Paris opens investigation into deaths of two nationals in Nairobi mall attack
• Kenya says 62 dead, 2 terrorists killed, hostages rescued in mall crisis

We Recommend

• Storms leave 97 dead, 58 missing in Mexico
• New model of indigenous surface-to-air missiles testfired
  
• 118.28-carat diamond to be auctioned in HK
• Maternal love under streetlight
• Naked foreign student sits in the middle of a road in Haikou
  
• Colorful Yunnan: Enjoy the natural beauty
  
• Harbin named Chinese city with most beautiful women
• New college students' military training in Guangzhou
  
• Rugby girls