Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Kenya Once Again Says Hostage Situation is Over

Officials in Kenya are once again saying that the hostage situation in the Westgate Mall is over. The mall was attacked, on Saturday, by Al Shabaab militants.

They had initially said it was all over, late Monday night, but fighting broke out again, on Tuesday. It is unclear if the government simple said it early or if terrorists had been hiding, making the government think it was over.

A total of seventy-two people were killed in terrorist attack. Sixty-one civilians, six military personnel, and five of the terrorists. Nearly two hundred were injured and the Kenyan Red Cross lists sixty-five as still missing. The missing may be in a part of the mall where explosions collapsed three floors of the building.

Eleven of the terrorists were captured. The government is working to determine if all of the militants are accounted for, or if some managed to escape. On Monday, they had been claiming that the attackers were made up of foreigners, however, on Tuesday they had no comment about those claims.

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