Kenya 2013 Airport Fire
On 7 August 2013, a fire broke out inside the main terminal building at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, destroying two of the three units contained in the building. No one was killed, but two people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.[1] Incoming flights were divered to Uganda, Tanzania, and other airports in Kenya.[2] Possible terrorism was an initial concern because the fire occurred on the fifteenth anniversary of the terrorist bombings of United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania plus the fact that Kenya has been involved in an armed conflict with Al-Shabaab in neighboring Somalia. Investigators, however, soon ruled out terrorism as the cause of the fire.[7]
Reference
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/world/africa/kenya-airport-fire/index.html
Not terrorism related but ... The blaze occurred on the 15th anniversary of the fatal terrorist attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. It also came days after the United States issued a worldwide travel alert and closed a number of embassies and consulates in large areas of the Middle East and Africa, though not in Kenya or Tanzania. In the 1998 near-simultaneous attacks, 224 people died and about 4,500 were wounded. In September, Al Qaeda's Al Shabab division took credit for a massive attack on the largest shopping mall in Nairobi.
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