Weeks after
militants killed scores of people in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, investigators combed
through the wreckage searching for clues.
The scale of
destruction was immense. These are among the first pictures to emerge from
inside the mall since the investigation began.
Western security officials say they
believe that several fighters slipped out of the mall during the attack,
dropping their guns, changing clothes and blending in with fleeing civilians,
an account echoed by some witnesses.
The authorities in Kenya, widely
perceived as an oasis of peace and prosperity in a troubled region, are
struggling to explain how a handful of Islamist extremists could lay siege to a
shopping mall, then hold off security forces for days.
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