'Sitting ducks': Volunteer describes rescue at besieged Kenyan hotel


  • World
  • Monday, 21 Jan 2019

FILE PHOTO: Serge Medic, the Swiss owner of a security company speaks during a Reuters interview on the attack at the Dusit hotel complex, in Nairobi, Kenya January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo

NAIROBI (Reuters) - As the sun set on an upmarket hotel complex in Nairobi, Serge Medic's phone pinged with a message from his son: "Dad, are you OK?... Don't do anything silly, please."

Medic chuckled as he recounted the moment.

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