The British man killed in the Kenyan hotel attack carried out
yesterday by Islamist terrorists has been named as charity executive,
Luke Potter.
Mr Potter worked for the Gatsby Charitable Foundation as their Africa
Programmes Director, and had only recently moved to Nairobi from the
UK. He was at the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi when 5 terrorists stormed
the place with guns and grenades on Tuesday, January 15.
The father-of-one had worked for the international development
charity for more than three years, most recently on projects across East
Africa.
Tuesday’s terror attack at a hotel and office complex in Nairobi saw
five gunmen kill 14 people, including Mr Potter and a 41-year-old U.S.
businessman, after detonating car bombs outside.
More than 700 people were evacuated from the complex overnight,
however, some 50 people believed to have been in the building at the
time of the attack are still unaccounted for, according to the Kenya Red
Cross.
Mr Potter was reportedly a dual British-South African citizen.
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation said in a statement they were ‘deeply shocked and saddened’ to confirm the death of Mr Potter.
Read the statement below.
