Westgate Mall in Kenya reopens after attack by terrorists in 2013

#westgatemall #nairobi #kenya #alshabaab #garissaattack Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi had witnessed a terrorist attack in September 2013 and 67 people were killed in the attack carried out by al-Shabaab militants. The mall has now reopened as reported in bbc.com dated 18 July 2015.
It may be recalled that in September 2013, al-Shabaab gunmen had entered the mall and fired on shoppers. Subsequently, there was a siege over four days.

Anyway, half of the shops are opening again after an extensive refurbishment and this reopening has been planned a week before the visit of US President Barack Obama to Nairobi - a sign, the city's governor said, that the capital was safe. Several portions of the mall were badly damaged by fire and it is not clear if those sections are reopening. Al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamist group, had accepted responsibility for the attack which it had done to protest against Kenya's military operations in Somalia. There were four gunmen and all of them are believed to have died during the assault. The armed militants had targeted foreign nationals as well as Kenyans.
After the Westgate siege, al-Shabaab militants has launched several high-profile attacks like the attack on a university in Garissa – it was in April and 150 people died in the attack.
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