Number of missing people after Westgate terror attack reduces to 39
from 61 Updated
Monday, September 30th 2013 at 13:30 GMT +3
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The Kenyan Red Cross has said the number of missing people in the Westgate
mall terror attack has gone down to 39 from an earlier figure of 61.
Fourteen of the missing have been found alive and seven bodies were in the
morgue, it said.
The government has said 67 people were killed after al-Shabab militants
stormed the Westgate centre in the Nairobi on September 21.
MPs have started a probe into alleged intelligence failings over the attack.
The Red Cross says some relatives were not updating them when they found
people who had been reported as missing.
A Red Cross tracing manager has told the BBC that "some were reports from
people who could not get through to their relatives on the phone and
thought they might have been at the mall".
The organisation has been calling those who reported people missing for
updates.
Five militants were killed by the security forces during the four-day siege
and 10 people have since been arrested, the authorities say.
Al-Shabab, a Somali Islamist group, said the attack was in retaliation for
Kenya's military involvement in Somalia.
-BBC
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