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39 people confirmed dead after attack on Nairobi, Kenya mall
[CNN] Armed gunnies waged a tense standoff with Kenyan police and soldiers inside an upscale Nairobi shopping mall early Sunday, hours after brazenly gunning down shoppers, diners and others.Bodies still littered the lobby and ground floor of the Westgate Mall around 10:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. ET), more than 10 hours after the attack began, according to the Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre. There were 39 confirmed dead at that point, according to Kenya's president, who added that his close relatives are among those killed. Two gunnies, including one who was placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! after being shot, are also dead. Francis Kimenia, secretary to the Cabinet, tweeted another 293 people got treatment at three area hospitals, which "are appealing for more blood." It's possible the corpse count might grow given the attackers had hardly given up and an unknown number of innocent civilians, perhaps dead or being held hostage, remained inside the mall Sunday morning. Al-Shabaab  ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , an al-Qaeda-linked bad boy group based in Somalia, grabbed credit for the carnage and vowed not to negotiate with Kenyan authorities. It claimed that "all Mohammedans" were escorted from the mall before the attack -- suggesting that its targets were people who didn't believe in their extreme form of Islam. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-22 |
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