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malaise

(268,664 posts)
Sat Sep 21, 2013, 04:06 PM Sep 2013

25 dead in that Kenyan shopping mall

where mostly expats shop.
Damn!!!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/gunmen-kenyan-shopping-centre-nairobi
<snip>
At least 25 people have been killed in a suspected terrorist attack in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after gunmen opened fire and threw grenades in an upmarket shopping centre.

On Saturday evening the Kenyan presidency tweeted that one of the gunmen had been arrested. The country's head of police, David Kimaiyo, said several assailants were also apprehended when police and military entered the mall following the attack.

Witnesses said the men, brandishing AK-47s, told Muslims to leave and shot those they believed were non-Muslims.

"We are treating this as a terrorist attack," said the police chief Benson Kibue, adding that 10 attackers were involved. Police did not say which group was responsible.

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25 dead in that Kenyan shopping mall (Original Post) malaise Sep 2013 OP
An update at the BBC website SheilaT Sep 2013 #1
About to watch BBC news malaise Sep 2013 #2
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
1. An update at the BBC website
Sat Sep 21, 2013, 05:43 PM
Sep 2013

now says 39 dead.

Sometimes I think the entire Universe would be better off without any humans in it.

malaise

(268,664 posts)
2. About to watch BBC news
Sat Sep 21, 2013, 06:06 PM
Sep 2013

Until humans learn that we have to stop killing people this madness will never stop.
When will we learn that that if you kill my people I'll kill yours. I can't take much more of this because most of whom are killed are innocent people.

President Kenyatta says he has lost relatives in the attack.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/kenyan-shopping-mall-attack-dead
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Dozens of people have been killed in Nairobi as Islamic militants stormed a shopping mall in the worst terrorist attack Kenya has suffered since the US embassy bombings in east Africa that brought al-Qaida to international attention in the 1990s.

At least 39 people, including many women, children and "very close members" of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's family, were killed and more than 150 wounded when heavily armed attackers pulled up in several cars and shot their way into the most upmarket shopping centre in the Kenyan capital, ordering Muslims out if they could prove their religion by reciting a prayer.

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