Foreign forensic experts check the perimeter of Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya after a four-day attack by Islamist militants who killed at least 72 people and kept dozens hostage.
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FBI agents started fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall.
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A street-seller prepares floral wreaths outside the mortuary in Nairobi.
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Agnes Mutua, right, waited all day to identify her nephew Christopher Kennedy Chewa, who died in the Westgate Mall attack
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Members of the Kenyan Sikh community come together in Nairobi to cremate a grandmother and son who were killed in the attack.
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Family members light a funeral pyre at the Sikh funeral of Dalvinder Kaur Ghataurhae and her grandson Pavraj Singh Ghataurhae, 16, at the Hindi Crematorium in Nairobi today.
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Thick smoke billowed from the besieged Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi on Monday for a third day following Somalia’s al Shabaab raid on the mall that left dozens dead.
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Kenyan security forces were locked in fierce battle with the Somali Islamist gunmen, who remained inside the mall, as explosions and gunfire echoed throughout the area.
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The days-long siege is close to ending, Kenyan officials said Monday morning.
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The Islamic extremists held dozens of hostages during the violent attack.
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Kenyan soldiers near the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi.
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Kenyan security urges bystanders to take cover as heavy gunfire erupts
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Kenyan security personnel
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Volunteers run for cover after hearing a volley of gunshots.
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People take cover after hearing gunshots.
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Firefighters enter Westgate shopping center after the explosions.
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Kenyan security forces
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Armed Kenyan policemen
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A Kenyan police officer
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Kenyan TV presenter stands in front of the rising smoke Monday night
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A police officer holds a gun to provide cover for customers running out as a shooting took place at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday, September 21, 2013.
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A soldier carries a child to safety.
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Emergency services carry a woman to an ambulance in the car park as police search through the Westgate shopping centre for gunmen.
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A policeman carries a baby to safety
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A policeman carries a baby to safety after masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall and sprayed gunfire on shoppers and staff, killing at least six on September 21, 2013 in…
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A child runs to safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi September 21, 2013. The gunmen stormed a shopping…
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People scramble for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate shopping centre
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Armed police search customers taking cover inside a bathroom while combing through the Westgate shopping centre
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Armed police search through Westgate shopping centre
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A woman with her two children rescued from the mall
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A Kenyan woman is helped to safety after masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall and sprayed gunfire on shoppers and staff, killing at least six on September 21, 2013 in…
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An injured policeman holds on to his wound as his compatriot searches through the Westgate shopping centre
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An armed police searches through a shopping centre for gunmen in Nairobi, September 21, 2013. Gunmen stormed a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital on Saturday killing at least 15…
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Soldiers and armed police hunt the gunmen
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Armed police search through Westgate shopping centre for gunmen in Nairobi, September 21, 2013. Gunmen stormed the shopping mall in the Kenyan capital on Saturday killing at least 15 people,…
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A policeman takes up position during a shootout with armed men at the Westgate shopping mall
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A body, left, lies outside the Westgate Mall, an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday Sept. 21 2013, where shooting erupted when armed men attempted to rob a shop,…
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A woman is trolled into an ambulance after masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall and sprayed gunfire on shoppers and staff, killing at least thirteen on September 21, 2013 in…
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Construction workers run following a shootout between unidentified armed men and the police at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi September 21, 2013. Gunmen stormed the shopping mall in the…
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A police officer secures an area as civilians flee
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Civilians escape an area at the Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi September 21, 2013. Gunmen stormed the shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday killing at least 20 people in what…
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An injured woman (C) is helped out of the Westgate Shopping Centre where gunmen went on a shooting spree, in Nairobi September 21, 2013. The gunmen stormed the shopping mall…
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A police officer tries to secure an area inside the Westgate Shopping Centre
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A police officer tries to secure an area inside the Westgate Shopping Centre where gunmen went on a shooting spree in Nairobi September 21, 2013. The gunmen stormed the shopping…
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