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24 Sep 2013

Kenya mall siege ‘over’ but death toll unclear

Author: admintech | Filed under: World

By James Macharia and Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – As Kenya began three days of mourning on Wednesday for at least 67 people killed in the siege of a Nairobi mall, it was unclear how many more hostages may have died with the Somali Islamist attackers buried in the rubble. Declaring final victory over the al Qaeda-linked gunmen from al Shabaab who stormed the Westgate shopping center on Saturday, President Uhuru Kenyatta said that three floors in a part of the mall had collapsed near the end of the operation, leaving an unknown number of bodies under steel and concrete. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kenya-says-hostages-freed-al-shabaab-mall-siege-004915611.html