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| Kenya attack: Westgate mall bodies 'probably gunmen' | Kenya attack: Westgate mall bodies 'probably gunmen' |
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| Two charred bodies pulled from Kenya's Westgate shopping centre on Thursday are "highly likely" to be two of the attackers, an MP has told the BBC. | |
| Ndung'u Gethenji, chairman of the parliamentary committee investigating the attack, also said another body recovered was likely to be soldier. | |
| The authorities will now conduct forensic tests on the bodies. | The authorities will now conduct forensic tests on the bodies. |
| At least 67 people died when suspected al-Shabab militants stormed the Nairobi shopping centre on 21 September. | At least 67 people died when suspected al-Shabab militants stormed the Nairobi shopping centre on 21 September. |
| The attack sparked a four-day siege, in which large parts of the shopping centre were destroyed. | |
| The Kenyan authorities have released the names of four suspects in the attack, but have given few other details. | |
| It is still not clear whether some of the attackers might have escaped, or even how many attackers there were. | |
| Officials initially said 10 to 15 gunmen were involved, but CCTV footage has shown only four militants. | |
| The BBC's Will Ross in Nairobi says Kenyans still feel there are a lot of unanswered questions, and will be shocked if it turns out that just four gunmen caused such havoc. | |
| The Somali militant group al-Shabab said its members carried out the attack in response to Kenya's army carrying out operations on Somali territory. | |
| The BBC's Newsnight programme has revealed that one of the suspected attackers is a 23-year-old Somalia-born Norwegian national. | |
| His family fled to Norway in the 1990s, but he returned to Somalia in 2009 and allegedly joined the Somali militant group. | |
| Al-Shabab, which is believed to have between 7,000 and 9,000 fighters, controls large parts of Somalia. | |
| The group, which is banned as a terrorist group by both the US and the UK, is fighting to create an Islamic state in Somalia. |