Terrorism ruled out in Kenya hotel blaze
Four properties owned by same company hit by dinner-time fire
Police in Kenya are investigating the cause of a huge fire that hit four hotels in quick succession. Officers in Mombasa are working out how the fire spread from one hotel to three others, causing the evacuation of some 650 guests from the UK, France and Germany.
The hotels, north of Mombasa, are the Shanzu Beach, Paradise Beach, Coral Beach and Palm Beach. According to the online news provider Ananova, the fire started as many of the guests sat down to dinner; they then had to spend the night in other accommodation owned by the African Safari Club, which owns the four fire-hit hotels.
African Safari Club told News From Abroad this morning that terrorism has been ruled out as the fire started in a hotel suite. The company is operating a “business as usual” policy for bookings in the near future, and says guests can be accommodated in its other hotels in Kenya.
The company’s Jan Roe, who confirmed that 77 British guests were in the hotels when the fire struck, said: “Our prime concern at the moment is for the customers who were staying in the hotels at the time of the fire, and we are working very closely with the British Consulate to ensure everything that can be done, is done.” Travellers or agents with existing bookings should contact the company’s reservations department on 0845 345 0014.
In recent months the country has been the subject of several warnings from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, while British Airways temporarily stopped flying to Kenya in May because of an “imminent terror threat”.
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