Nairobi (RBC) Heavy gun battle still continues at Nairobi’s Westgate mall whereby attackers from Al Shabab yesterday and seized until today.
Kenyan media reports indicated that its security personnel were caught completely off guard by a audacious terror attack that has killed at least 39 people and injured more than 150.
The East Africa Standard website, quoted an unnamed ‘top police officer attached to Kenya’s anti-terrorism unit’ as saying that the incident had caught security personnel by surprise and adding that they had been no intelligence of the attack at all.
“Initial reports received by the police were that a robbery was taking place at the mall. The first to respond were a team of flying squad officers and police from Gigiri Division, under which the mall falls. It took at least an hour before a team of specialised units were deployed to the scene”, the report added.
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