Police: 39 people confirmed dead in hostage standoff at Nairobi, Kenya, mall

[Faygo Kid]

Source: CNN

Armed gunmen were holed up with hostages inside an upscale shopping mall in Kenya's capital overnight Saturday, hours after brazenly gunning down shoppers, diners and others.

Bodies still littered the lobby and ground floor of the Westgate Mall around 10:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. ET), more than 10 hours after the attack began, according to the Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre.

There were 39 confirmed dead and 150 wounded at that point, according to Kenya's president, who added that his close relatives are among those killed. Two gunmen, including one who was detained after being shot, are also dead.

With the situation far from settled, it's very possible the death toll might grow. . .

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/21/world/africa/kenya-mall-gunbattle/index.html

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Tragic. Cowards shooting innocent people in a mall. Disgusting, appalling - you apply your own statements.

[furious]

1. Fucking cowards, shooting, wounding and killing defenseless innocent people

who are doing nothing more than shopping. I hope the police take each and every one of them, dead or alive, makes no difference.

[iandhr]

2. No words describe...

... how awful this is.

[JCMach1]

3. my heart goes out... could have been me and my family if they had attacked

on Christmas Eve last year... This is with the tight security they have at malls in Kenya.

[Eugene]

4. Islamists claim gun attack on Nairobi mall, at least 39 dead

Source: Reuters

Islamists claim gun attack on Nairobi mall, at least 39 dead

By Edmund Blair and Richard Lough
NAIROBI | Sat Sep 21, 2013 5:35pm EDT

(Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Saturday, killing at least 39 people including close relatives of Kenya's president and children, in an attack claimed by the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab.

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Al Shabaab, which has links to al Qaeda and is battling Kenyan and other African peacekeepers in Somalia, had repeatedly threatened attacks on Kenyan soil if Nairobi did not pull its troops out of the Horn of Africa country.

"The Kenyan govt (government) is pleading with our Mujahideen (holy warriors) inside the mall for negotiations," the group said under its official Twitter handle @HSM_Press. "There will be no negotiations whatsoever at #Westgate."

Another al Shabaab tweet read: "For long we have waged war against the Kenyans in our land, now it's time to shift the battleground and take the war to their land."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/21/us-kenya-attack-idUSBRE98K03V20130921

[Skittles]

5. my Kenyan coworker very upset

[Nanjing to Seoul]

6. Mali, Sudan/S. Sudan. Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Somalia, Central African Republic,

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia/Eritrea, Zimbabwe.

Africa is slowly killing itself. If HIV doesn't decimate sub-Saharan Africa, these crazies with guns will.

Boko Harem translates to "Western Education is Sin," but has no problems using western arms to kill as many people in the name of Allah.

[Recursion]

7. Death toll now 59

Oy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/22/us-kenya-attack-idUSBRE98K03V20130922