“All efforts are underway to bring this matter to a speedy conclusion,” Jordan 13 Retro it said.
The army said four of its soldiers were wounded in the latest fighting inside the upmarket Westgate mall, which was stormed by gunmen from Somalia’s al Qaeda linked Shebab rebels midday Saturday.
At least 68 people were confirmed to have been killed in the Nairobi shopping mall hostage crisis, Kenya Red Cross said, after nine more bodies were recovered on Sunday, updating an earlier toll of 59.
The bodies were taken out the mall shortly after Kenya troops launched an assault on cornered Somali militants. Around 200 others were left wounded in the attack.
Kenyan troops were engaged in an assault on cornered Somali militants holding hostages inside a Nairobi shopping mall to end the deadly siege, the government crisis team said on Sunday.
“Godspeed to our guys in the Westgate building,” Kenya’s National Disaster Operation Centre said in a message on its Twitter site. “Major engagement ongoing.”
The number of people killed in an ongoing Nairobi shopping mall siege is feared to rise sharply from the 68 people confirmed Air Jordan 12s dead, police sources said on Sunday after entering the building.
“We fear the death toll. it could be much, much higher than what we have, judging from the bodies sighted inside,” a police officer said, after reports from inside of multiple corpses.
Earlier, Israeli forces also joined Kenyan efforts to end a deadly siege by Somali militants at the mall, a security source told AFP.
“The Israelis have just entered and they are rescuing the hostages and the injured,” the source said on condition he not be named.
The intervention came 26 hours after gunmen walked into the complex, tossing grenades and spraying gunfire at shoppers and staff.
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Some 10 to 15 gunmen are battling security forces inside Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, Kenya’s interior minister Joseph Ole Lenku had said on Sunday.
“We believe there are some innocent people in the building, that is why the operation is delicate,” he had added.
Somalia’s Al Qaeda inspired Shebab rebels said the carnage at the part Israeli owned complex mall was in retaliation for Kenya’s military intervention in Jordan Pro Strong Somalia, where African Union troops are battling the Islamists.
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a televised address to the nation late Saturday that he had “personally lost family members in the Westgate attack”.
“Let me make it clear. We shall hunt down the perpetrators wherever they run to. We shall get them. We shall punish them for this heinous crime,” he vowed.
The Westgate mall, popular among wealthy Kenyans and expatriates, was packed with around 1,000 shoppers when the gunmen marched in at midday Saturday, tossed grenades and sprayed automatic gunfire on terrified people.
Security agencies had long feared that the shopping centre could be targeted Air Jordan 17s by Al Qaeda linked groups.
The attack was the worst in Nairobi since an Al Qaeda bombing at the US embassy killed more than 200 in 1998.
After a day and night of sometimes ferocious gun battles, security sources said police and soldiers had finally “pinned down” the gunmen.
Two Indians killed
Two Indians, including an 8 year old boy, were among 43 killed and four other Indian nationals injured in the attack by armed terrorists in the mall.
While one of the victims 40 year old Sridhar Natarajan was working with a pharma firm, the boy Paramshu Jain was the son of a manager of the local Bank of Baroda branch, Syed Akbaruddin, Air Jordan 14s spokesperson in the ministry of external affairs (Government of India) said.
Four Indians, including two women and a girl, were injured in the attack and are receiving medical treatment, the spokesperson said.
India’s mission in Nairboi is in touch with the families of the deceased, the spokesperson said.
Syed Akbaruddin tweeted: “Update on Nairobi attack :4 Indians including 2 women, male adult and girl injured. Two others employee of pharma firm and a boy sadly died.”
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