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Kenya mall massacre

India TV News Desk Published : Sep 24, 2013, 12:00 AM IST Updated : Sep 24, 2013, 09:57 AM IST
Even as the Somalian terror group Al Shabab posted 15 names online of its brave fighters, the survivors of the world's deadliest shopping mall siege gave disturbing accounts of how the terrorists killed and maimed innocents and mutilated their bodies in order to hide their identities.
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Even as the Somalian terror group Al Shabab posted 15 names online of its brave fighters, the survivors of the world's deadliest shopping mall siege gave disturbing accounts of how the terrorists killed and maimed innocents and mutilated their bodies in order to hide their identities.
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On Sunday night the terrorists were holed on the second and third floors of a storage warehouse in the Westgate mall, even as Kenyan soldiers, supported by US, Israeli and British security experts tried to regain control of the mall.
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Kenyan forces have so far claimed to have taken control of the ground and first floors, with nearly 15 people reportedly taken hostages by the jehadi terrorists.
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People barricaded themselves inside storerooms, while others hid in boxes or even played dead on Saturday night as the standoff continued.
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All were fleeing the bloody massacre unfolding around them as they saw terrified fellow shoppers mercilessly executed after being singled out as non Muslim.
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Men, women and children were lined up and then gunned down with AK 47s after failing to name the Prophet Mohammed's mother or recite passages from the Koran sure fire proof they were kafirs', or non believers.
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Others fled and sought refuge in shops, bank vaults and store rooms as grenades exploded and bullets fired around them.
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The fortunate ones managed to emerge blood splattered and terrified, with the wounded pushed out in shopping trolleys.
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The terrorists were highly organised, with huge amounts of ammunition as well as night vision equipment. They destroyed CCTV cameras inside the shopping mall, meaning they cannot be watched.