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Somalia’s Al-Shabab Claims Nairobi Westgate Kenya Attack ‘We Killed those 39 People’
Eyewitnesses saw armed men in black, their heads covered in scarves, entering the Westgate shopping centre on Saturday afternoon.
A senior figure in the Somali militant group al-Shabab has told the BBC it carried out a deadly attack on a shopping centre in neighbouring Kenya.
The gunmen have been cornered but an unknown number of hostages are still trapped inside Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, officials say.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said 39 people had been killed, including some of his family, and 150 were injured.
Al-Shabab said the attack was in response to Kenyan troops in Somalia.
There are about 4,000 Kenyan troops in the south of Somalia, where they have been fighting the militants since 2011.
On its Twitter feed, al-Shabab – which has links to al-Qaeda – said it was behind what it called the “Westgate spectacle”.
Hostages trapped
In his TV address, Mr Kenyatta said security forces were “in the process of neutralising the attackers and securing the mall”.
He went on: “We shall hunt down the perpetrators wherever they run to. We shall get to them and we shall punish them for this heinous crime.”
He said he had “personally lost family members in the Westgate attack”.
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gamadulaz
September 22, 2013 at 7:15 am
ISLAM SHOULD BE BANNED IN AFRICA, ITS CAUSING MORE DEATHS THAN HIV AIDS.
lila
September 22, 2013 at 11:31 am
eeeeeeh mwe…i mean seriously what the heck is wrong with them…nxa
MBULO
September 22, 2013 at 8:27 am
o.k,story understood! BUT ine i love 2 read pure zed gossip on tumfweko.
Chasha
September 22, 2013 at 11:17 am
I wish we all just believed in GOD almighty and not this Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Satanism, Hinduism NONSENCE. GOD has never created any religion men have hence causing an necessary divisions among themselves.
Tengani Banda
September 22, 2013 at 3:20 pm
This is wat will happen even in Zambia were bembas are at tongas & lozis tribe’s necks. Guys lets organise our selves as all Zambians not every time talking about someones tribe,race or nationality.Mwe ba bemba mwali shupisha na sata wenu.
palibe kantu
September 22, 2013 at 3:48 pm
Look who’s talkin!? You are not only tribal you are an I D I O T.
Men n Blac
September 22, 2013 at 3:44 pm
What’s all this senseless horrendous act all about? Why is it that some people like terror so much?