GUNMEN IN BATTLE WITH SECURITY IN NAIROBI – LIVES PERISHED




 
At least 30 lives claimed, others injured, while security and full armed bandits were in gun battle at the shopping centre in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. HERE in the pictures...

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