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| Nairobi Westgate attack: Group denies Britons involved | |
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| A commander with the group believed to behind the attack on a Kenyan shopping centre has told the BBC reports some of the militants were British are untrue. | A commander with the group believed to behind the attack on a Kenyan shopping centre has told the BBC reports some of the militants were British are untrue. |
| The Foreign Office is investigating claims after Twitter accounts claiming to be from al-Shabab named some of the attackers and said they were British. | |
| Sixty-nine people have been killed, including three Britons. | |
| Prime Minister David Cameron is cutting short a visit to Balmoral to chair an emergency meeting later. | Prime Minister David Cameron is cutting short a visit to Balmoral to chair an emergency meeting later. |
| Families of the victims have been informed, the Foreign Office said. | Families of the victims have been informed, the Foreign Office said. |
| A Twitter account purporting to be an al-Shabab spokesman, which has now been shut down, named a 24-year-old man from London as one of the gunmen. | |
| On the run | |
| A later account, also claiming to be from the Somali al-Shabab movement, named Samantha Lewthwaite. | |
| Media reports suggest Ms Lewthwaite, the widow of 7 July bomber Jermaine Lindsay, was involved in the attack but the Foreign Office says it has no evidence and is unwilling to speculate. | |
| An al-Shabab military commander, who called himself Abu Omar, told the BBC that reports some of the attackers were from the UK or US were baseless - as were reports that women had also stormed the shopping centre. | |
| Ms Lewthwaite, who comes from Aylesbury, is on the run and is wanted by Kenyan police over links to a suspected terror cell. | |
| Dubbed the "White Widow" by many of the papers, it is understood she fled across the border from Kenya to Somalia in 2012. | |
| At least 170 people were also injured since the attack began in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Saturday. | At least 170 people were also injured since the attack began in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Saturday. |
| Between 10 and 15 attackers are still inside the Westgate shopping centre. Heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard on Monday morning. | |
| The Foreign Office has said it expects the number of British fatalities to rise. | The Foreign Office has said it expects the number of British fatalities to rise. |
| Mr Cameron, who has warned the UK to be braced for "more bad news", called the attack "an absolutely sickening and despicable attack of appalling brutality". | |
| "These appalling terrorist attacks that take place where the perpetrators claim they do it in the name of a religion - they don't," he said. | "These appalling terrorist attacks that take place where the perpetrators claim they do it in the name of a religion - they don't," he said. |
| "They do it in the name of terror, violence and extremism and their warped view of the world. They don't represent Islam or Muslims in Britain or anywhere else in the world." | "They do it in the name of terror, violence and extremism and their warped view of the world. They don't represent Islam or Muslims in Britain or anywhere else in the world." |
| The British government's emergency response committee, Cobra, has already met twice to discuss the attacks. | The British government's emergency response committee, Cobra, has already met twice to discuss the attacks. |
| On Monday, the prime minister tweeted: "I'm cutting short a visit to Balmoral to return to Downing St to chair Cobra late this afternoon, dealing with the Kenya terror attacks." | On Monday, the prime minister tweeted: "I'm cutting short a visit to Balmoral to return to Downing St to chair Cobra late this afternoon, dealing with the Kenya terror attacks." |
| A Cobra meeting is a get together of ministers, civil servants, the police, intelligence officers and others appropriate to whatever they are looking into. | A Cobra meeting is a get together of ministers, civil servants, the police, intelligence officers and others appropriate to whatever they are looking into. |
| The UK has offered Kenya assistance, including intelligence co-operation. | |
| UK staff from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia travelled to assist locally-based officials and a rapid deployment team was sent from London, the Foreign Office said. | |
| Shoppers have told of how they huddled in back hallways as gunmen threw grenades and then opened fire. | |
| Foreigners from France, Canada, India, the Netherlands, South Africa, Ghana and the US were also killed in the attack, including a Canadian diplomat working at Canada's High Commission to Kenya. | |
| Al-Shabab says it carried out the attack in response to Kenyan military operations in Somalia. | |
| The group, which is part of the al-Qaeda network, has repeatedly threatened attacks on Kenyan soil if Nairobi did not pull its troops out of Somalia. | |
| There are about 4,000 Kenyan troops in the south of Somalia, where they have been fighting the militants since 2011. | |
| British nationals concerned about friends or family can contact the Foreign Office on +44 (0)20 7008 0000. | British nationals concerned about friends or family can contact the Foreign Office on +44 (0)20 7008 0000. |
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