Kenya Shopping Mall Attack Leaves At Least 30 People Dead
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Unidentified gunmen stormed an upscale shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, killing at least 30 people as the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.
More than 60 were injured, according to the Kenya Red Cross, in an assault that began at about 12:30 p.m. at the Westgate Mall in Westlands, 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) northwest of Nairobi’s city center. Kenyan security forces wounded one gunman and have “several others pinned down,” Police Inspector-General David Kimaiyo said on his Twitter account about eight hours after the raid started.