Kenya military names Westgate mall attack suspects
CCTV footage shows armed men carrying weapons and searching areas leading off a storeroom
Four
men believed to have carried out the deadly shopping centre attack in
Nairobi last month have been named by the Kenyan military.
The men were named as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr.No more details have been given about the suspects, but Kenya said previously 10-15 militants were involved.
The al-Shabab group said it carried out the attack on the Westgate mall on 21 September, leaving at least 67 dead.
The al-Qaeda-linked group said the attack was in retaliation for Kenya's military involvement in Somalia.
Kenya Defence Forces spokesman Maj Emmanuel Chirchir told news agencies: "I confirm these were the terrorists."
The naming of the men came as CCTV footage was aired showing four attackers calmly walking through a room in the mall holding machine guns.
Kenya had earlier said that nine people were in custody in relation to the attack.
It was not immediately clear if the four named men had been killed in the security operation.
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