NAIROBI, Kenya - Masked gunmen stormed a teeming upmarket mall in Nairobi Saturday, spraying gunfire and killing around 39 people before holing themselves up in the complex with hostages.
Police were going shop-to-shop to evacuate terrified people from the West-gate shopping mall, which is popular with wealthy Kenyans and expatriates and generally packed on weekends.
Witnesses said the gunmen spoke Arabic or Somali and executed shoppers, in what appeared to be the worst attack in Nairobi since an Al Qaeda bombing at the US embassy killed more than 200 in 1998.
The Red Cross said 50 people were wounded in the attack.
A well-organized “terror gang” is believed to be behind an armed assault on a Nairobi shopping mall, senior police sources told AFP, adding they had also detained one wounded suspect.
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