A screengrab released on Saturday, taken from closed circuit television
shows the gunmen who massacred at least 67 people wandering through
Kenya’s Westgate mall on September 21, 2013.
PHOTO I AFP
Posted Monday, October 7 2013 at 11:25
In Summary
Newly released CCTV camera footage from one part of
the mall shows four armed men walking calmly around, apparently
searching for new victims
Nairobi. Kenyan police said on
Saturday that between four and six men conducted a deadly Nairobi mall
siege, far fewer than thought, as chilling new footage showed the
attackers calmly ambling around with AK-47 rifles in hand.
The Kenyan military also named four men believed to have carried out the attack.
The men were named as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr.
Kenya initially said that between 10 and 15 gunmen
were involved in the 80-hour siege of a busy upmarket shopping centre
that killed at least 67 people.
“From what we have now that is coming out of the
investigation, the number of attackers was between four to six,” police
chief David Kimaiyo told Kenyan television station KTN.
“None of them managed to escape from the building
after the attack,” he said, implying that they were killed in the
confrontation.
Witnesses described how the fighters stormed the
complex midday on September 21, when it was crowded with Saturday
shoppers, firing from the hip and hurling grenades.
Newly released CCTV camera footage from one part
of the mall shows four armed men walking calmly around, apparently
searching for new victims.
On Saturday Kimaiyo confirmed that wanted British
“White Widow” Samantha Lewthwaite -- reported to have been one of the
attackers -- was not involved.
“On Samantha we have also established that she was not part of the attackers in the building. There was no woman,” he said.
Ruthless
Kenyan officials claimed to have killed five
assailants, but the footage, taken around five hours into the 80-hour
siege, shows only four men.
One thing is clear: the men were organised, apparently unafraid, and utterly ruthless.
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN