Sunday 22 September 2013

Mall attack Kenya: President vows to avenge the pain quickly.

Fifty nine died at least 175 people were injured about 30 hostages remained , as perhaps a dozen gunmen .
These figures are alarming than the day after the attack on Islamist stormed luxury shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday, spraying bullets and held captive buyers.
Conflicts, tensions continued on Sunday night , with sporadic gunfire heard throughout the day , and at least one explosion.
President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta told reporters. Sunday afternoon the Kenyan nation has demonstrated resilience as successful and will attack .
Tragedy is part of the nephew and his fiancee were among the 59 people killed.
"They will not get away with offensive action beastly of them as the perpetrators of this cowardly trapped in the building while I will punish the masterminds quickly and certainly very painful, " Kenyatta said.
Kenyan government and Western diplomatic sources said the Al-Shabaab militants were holding about 30 hostages in the shopping center .
As Kenyan troops faced formidable carefully searched five-story building on Sunday - and the challenge of bearing the Al-Shabaab - the siege was not close to resolution.
10 to 15 gunmen were involved Kenyatta said.
"We know they are all over the building, " State House Press Esipisu Manoah told CNN's Zain Verjee " We know that they are now separated somewhere inside the building ."
Soldiers still on guard outside the mall , guns hanging from their shoulders .
"We want to do everything . Possible, and the security people are doing everything possible to make sure we do not lose a lot of "Esipisu said.
More than 175 people were injured in the attack , said Kenyatta gave his support to the injured and the relatives of the deceased , he said he and other staff in Kenya , visited the hospital Sunday morning.
"No one should lose their life, it is not necessary to anesthetize and families should not have received news that their loved ones , they will be killed by a bunch of criminal of a coward ." he says.
It was the deadliest terror attack . In Kenya from al -Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassy in 1998 to the death of 213 people .
Attack Saturday Weekend popular meeting Kenyans and foreigners gather at Westgate malls on weekends to drink latte , catch a movie or browse through more than 80 stores.
Al-Shabaab proxy Al -Qaeda in Somalia, claimed responsibility and said it was not supported in a message which feeds Twitter of the group said that " Islam " was escorted out of the mall . before the attack.
"When justice is denied , it must be enforced ," it said in a tweet Sunday "Kenyans are quite safe in their city before they invade us and kill Muslims # Westgate".
Kenya launched an attack from Al-Shabaab in Somalia in 2011, the group threw a bomb at Kenya church bus stops and other public places .
Last year, the Kenya military has an important role in handing defeat on Al-Shabaab forces as part of a peacekeeping mission , they have released a major port of Somalia Kismayo.

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