Wednesday, September 25, 2013

British national arrested by Kenya Police in Westgate Mall attack aftermath

Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc.

A British national has been arrested in Nairobi following the bloody attack on the Westgate shopping mall by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab Islamists, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.

"We can confirm the detention of a British national in Nairobi and we are making contact to offer standard consular assistance," she told reporters.

The spokeswoman declined to say whether the arrest was directly linked

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