Explosive experts comb Kenya mall

September 25th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The explosive experts, along with sniffer dogs and remote-controlled demining robots are on the scene to search “for any potential explosive devices left behind,” AFP quoted a Kenyan security source as saying.

On September 21, heavily-armed al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab militants stormed the Westgate shopping mall in Kenyan capital Nairobi, taking hostages and holding onto the mall for four days.

The African country’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced late on Tuesday that the mall standoff was over after six attackers were killed and 11 others arrested by Kenyan security forces.

“We have ashamed and defeated our attackers. These cowards will meet justice,” Kenyatta said, adding, “Our losses are immense.”

He went on to explain that, “Three floors of the mall collapsed, trapping several bodies within the rubble including those of terrorists.”

According to Kenyan Red Cross at least 61 civilians and six members of the security forces were killed in the attack, with some 63 people being reported unaccounted for, while police said that the death toll could rise.

The president also announced three days of national mourning effective on Wednesday.

The four-day deadly battle in the African country sparked inside and outside outrage, with the UN special envoy for Somalia Nicholas Kay saying, “We need to intensify our campaigns against the al-Shabab fighters and it must be military, but also political and practical.”

Meanwhile, the Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid condemned the lethal raid against Nairobi’s mall on Tuesday, pledging to “finish” al-Shabab.

The al-Shabab militants, the majority of whom are reportedly from Somalia, said the attack on the shopping center was in retaliation for the presence of Kenyan troops in Somalia.

The militants also warned of more attacks if Kenyan forces don’t leave the Horn of Africa country.

MM/PR

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