Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Nairobi's Westgate Mall Massacre And Siege -- News Updates



Booby-Trap Terror At The Mall: Kenyan Forces Defuse Bombs Planted In Shopping Centre As Terrorists Boast There Are 'Countless' Dead Bodies Still Inside -- Daily Mail

* Explosives add perilous dimension to four-day hostage crisis in Nairobi
* Gunfire heard early today despite Kenyan assurances mall had been secured
* 'Up to three American teenagers and a British woman among terrorists'
* Three Kenyan soldiers have died from wounds sustained during the siege

Kenyan forces are defusing explosive devices set up by Islamist militants inside the Kenyan shopping mall where extremists claim to be still holding hostages, police said Tuesday.

'We are doing clean-up of explosives that had been set up by the terrorists,' Kenyan police said in a message on Twitter.

No details were released about the nature and size of the explosives, but it adds an extra dangerous element to the siege, which has now dragged on for over 72-hours.

Sporadic gunfire at the upmarket Westgate mall broke out again at dawn, hours after officials claimed Kenyan troops had wrested back 'control' of the sprawling complex from Somalia's Al Shebaab insurgents, who are said to include Americans and a British woman.

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Live Updates On The Kenya Westgate Mall Siege

Kenya stand-off: Latest updates: Live -- BBC
Nairobi shopping mall attack: British woman 'among terrorists': Live -- The Telegraph
Kenya Westgate mall siege - live -- The Guardian
Kenya mall siege: Live Report -- AFP
Live reporting -- Reuters
Deadly Kenya mall siege: LIVE UPDATES -- Voice of Russia
Nairobi terrorist attacks: Live updates as Kenyan forces mount gun battle to end shopping mall crisis -- Mirror.com
Kenya LIVE: Forces in control of all Westgate floors, says Interior Minister -- Zee news
Nairobi live: Kenya police takes over operation: Live -- First Post

More News On The Nairobi Westgate Mall Massacre And Siege

Kenya attack: What we know -- USA Today/AP
Militants say they are "holding out" in Kenya mall -- Reuters
Kenyan Forces Hunt for Remaining Holdouts at Westgate Mall -- Wall Street Journal
Hostages 'still being held' as soldiers killed at Nairobi mall -- France 24
Westgate mall: Gunfire, explosion heard on 4th day of Nairobi siege -- CNN
Booby-trap terror at the mall: Kenyan forces defuse bombs planted in shopping centre as terrorists boast there are 'countless' dead bodies still inside -- Daily Mail
Nairobi attack: UK woman and Americans 'among militants' -- BBC
‘2 or 3 Americans, 1 Brit’ among Nairobi mall attackers – Kenya’s FM -- RT
Kenya mall terrorists 'burnt victims' faces and cut off their hands to prevent identification' as reports emerge of woman hostage being sexually abused at gunpoint -- Daily Mail
'You’re a very bad man': Astonishing moment British boy, four, confronted Kenyan mall gunman… who gave him Mars bars and begged for forgiveness -- Daily Mail
SAS hero 'saves dozens' -- The Telegraph
Nairobi siege: some hid, others played dead as gunmen stalked the mall -- The Guardian
Kenya's dark day: Inconsolable anguish as relatives of mall massacre victims identify their loved ones at Nairobi morgue -- Daily Mail
Nairobi Westgate attack: The victims -- BBC
Nairobi attack: British-Australian architect and partner among dead -- The Guardian
Kenya mall attack: eight-year-old among six Britons confirmed dead -- The Guardian
French mother, daughter 'executed' at Nairobi mall -- France 24
Kenya Westgate atrocity is al-Shabaab's way of escalating Somali conflict -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
Nairobi terror attack pictures -- The Telegraph
Photos: Kenya mall attack -- CNN

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