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Kenya: Fire shuts down main airport
Kenyan authorities said domestic flights and international cargo flights would resume later on Wednesday. Plans for international flights would be announced later.
“Right now we’ve allowed the cargo to come in. Fruits, flower are coming in and are being processed. We hope we will be able to resume domestic flights,” Kamau said.
The fire coincided with the 15th anniversary of a twin attacks by Islamist militants on the United States embassy in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital of neighboring Tanzania.
But security analysts said there was as yet no indication of any link to Islamist militants that Kenyan soldiers are battling in neighboring Somalia as part of an African Union force.
Flights were diverted to Kenya’s port city of Mombasa. Plans were underway to divert other flights to Eldoret in the northwest and Kisumu in the west, as well as to neighboring countries including Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.
