Attackers enter building from front entrance, via second floor car park and reportedly also via the basement. Begin shooting and throwing grenades. Thousands of shoppers flee, with attackers reportedly targeting non-Muslims. Hostages taken and reportedly held in cinema and Millionaires Casino
Attackers captured in CCTV
The attackers made attempts to separate Muslims and non-Muslims, with Muslims allowed to leave the mall unharmed.
From the ground floor, the first group is reported by witnesses to have made its way upwards through the mall shooting and throwing grenades
A number of people are thought to have been taken hostage and held in a cinema and a casino on the second floor, while other unconfirmed reports suggest a number of people were held hostage in the basement area.
Approximately an hour into the attack, security forces enter the building. Gun battles ensue between police and the attackers, some of whom barricade themselves into the Nakumatt supermarket. Armed forces and helicopters are deployed, with gunfire and explosions continuing overnight
Smoke was seen rising from the complex after a series of explosions
Two Indians are among 59 killed in a bloody massacre by armed terrorists at a crowded, upscale mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Saturday. Nearly 300 people, including four Indians, have been wounded in the lethal assault.
By Sunday, around 10-15 attackers remain inside the mall according to Kenyan authorities. Gunfire and explosions continue throughout the day. At 1845 two helicopters land on the roof in an apparent operation to retake the mall
Interior Minister Joe Lenku said that by midday - 24 hours after the siege began - about 1,000 people had been rescued and 59 people killed
On Monday morning, a series of loud explosions and heavy gunfire was heard and thick black smoke began billowing from the complex as security forces launched another assault
Interior Minister Joe Lenku told that almost all the hostages had now been evacuated - indicating that some remain unaccounted for - two of the militants had been killed and several had been injured.
He said 62 people had died but the security forces were now in control of every floor of the shopping centre.
As night fell, a fire was seen burning at the shopping centre and security forces continued the operation to clear the building of militants.
Early on Tuesday, a senior police source declared the operation to clear the building was "over"
On Tuesday Sep 24,2013 evening Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta said that 61 civilians and six security officers had been killed.
President Kenyatta said that several bodies lying under rubble from collapsed parts of the building were still to be recovered and added that five attackers had been killed and 11 were in custody.
Responsibility for the attack has been claimed by al-Shabab - an Islamist group based in neighbouring Somalia, which is part of the al-Qaeda network.
The Indians killed in the carnage have been identified as -
- Sridhar Natarajan(40)whowas working with a pharma firm and
- Paramshu Jain(8) son of a bank manager, Akbaruddin
'Unknown' number of hostages still trapped in mall 24 hours after masked Islamist gunmen slaughtered 59 in terrifying siege they live-blogged on Twitter
Gunfire has been exchanged for hours after Kenyan troops and elite units joined police fighting gunmen in Nairobi's upmarket Westgate shopping centre on Saturday.
Ten to 15 hostages are trapped inside the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, said Kenyan interior minister Joe Lenku, as security forces lay siege to the building, which was stormed by heavily armed Islamic extremistsThe gang killed 59 people, according to Mr Lenku.
Two wounded Kenyan security forces officers were carried out of the mall this morning after a barrage of gunfire was heard.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has pledged to hunt down and punish the terrorists behind the brutal attack in upmarket Nairobi, in which a further 150 people were injured.
In a national televised address he said he had ‘personally lost family members in the Westgate attack’
Kenya's Deputy President, William Ruto, promised last night that they would “end the siege and get to the bottom of the attack”. “We will bring to account the perpetrators and their accomplices''
Nairobi's Police Chief, Benson Kibue, yesterday described the assault as a terrorist attack, and last night the Somalia-based group al-Shabaab was reported to have claimed responsibility.
Sudarshan Pattnaik and his team pay tributes to the victims of the terror attack on a Kenya mall by creating a sand sculpture on the Bay of Bengal coast in Puri, Orissa
Note
Yesterday's attack, if confirmed as a terrorist-inspired action, will be the biggest such attack in Kenya since al-Qa'ida bombed the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998, killing more than 200 people
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