- Title: Highlights of main world events 2010-2013
- Date: 19th December 2019
- Summary: Gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi on September 21 killing scores of people, and sending scores fleeing into shops, a cinema and onto the streets in search of safety. Sporadic gun shots could be heard hours after the assault started as soldiers surrounded the mall and police and soldiers combed the building, hunting down the attackers shop by shop. Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group confirmed that their militants were responsible for the attack. NAIROBI, KENYA (FILE - SEPTEMBER 21, 2013) (REUTERS) KENYAN POLICE OFFICERS RETREATING FROM ENTRANCE TO WESTGATE MALL WITH SOUND OF GUNSHOTS KENYAN SECURITY FORCES OUTSIDE MALL KENYAN FORCES INSIDE WESTGATE MALL HOLDING THEIR GUNS VARIOUS OF SHOPPERS WALKING OUT OF WESTGATE MALL WITH RAISED ARMS, SECURITY OFFICERS HELPING THEM TO SAFETY VARIOUS PLAIN CLOTHES POLICE OFFICERS INSIDE WESTGATE MALL ABANDONED HELMET ON THE FLOOR ABANDONED GUN ON THE FLOOR SHOES, RADIO AND BARE FOOT OF ATTACK VICTIM ON THE FLOOR 137. FAMILY BEING ESCORTED FROM THE MALL BY AN OFFICER
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- Keywords: Abbottabad Arab Spring Bangladesh Bashar Al-Assad Chile miners Colonel Gaddafi Deepwater Horizon disaster Egypt revolution Fukushima disaster Ghouta Hai Earthquake Hosni Mubarak Japan earthquake Kenya Libya Madiba Nelson Mandela Oil spill Osama bin Laden death South Africa Syria Top news 2010-2013 Tsunami US President Barack Obama United Nations Westgate attack building collapse chemical attack civil war trapped
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