'Kazi ya kuokoa mateka lazima iishe leo'

Armed police search Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi for the last remaining gunmen
Shots are still being heard in the mall as police and terrorists engage in a stand-off

People rush for safety away from gunfire between police and armed attackers

 Clearly distressed, this family join hands as they make their way out of the building. Bullet wounds can be seen in the glass behind them

Women carrying children run for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree in Westgate shopping centre.

A woman who had been held hostage makes it out alive from the mall, where seven are still being held

A policeman carries a baby to safety on the barrel of his gun while a woman ducks for safety behind him.

A Kenyan policeman sits clutching his stomach alongside his rifle while a colleague exchanges fire with the terrorists

A woman is shipped to an ambulance in a shopping trolley by centre staff

 A security officer helps an injured woman away from the building

A mother and her children lie on the floor as they attempt to hide while the gunmen armed with automatic weapons go on the rampage.

Police say armed men are still in the building and are holding prisoners

Wanajeshi wanne wa Kenya wamejeruhiwa kwa risasi mapema leo asubuhi katika mapambano na wapiganaji wa Al shaabab ndani ya jengo la maduka la westgate jijini Nairobi nchini Kenya.

Askari hao wameingia katika jengo hilo kuokoa wananchi waliotekwa tangu Jumamosi mchana.

Msemaji wa Jeshi la Kenya, Kanali Cyrus Oguna amesema, askari wa Kenya tayari wametawala sehemu kubwa ya jengo hilo, wapiganaji wa Al shaabab wamejificha kwenye sehemu chache kwenye maduka hayo maarufu nchini humo, na kwamba, kazi ya kuokoa mateka lazima iishe leo.

 Soma hapo chini

Kenya's rescue efforts to free hostages still holed up inside the ill-fated Westgate shopping Mall entered third day amid heavy gunfire Monday morning which left four Kenyan Defence forces officers slightly injured.

It was not immediately clear if any of the terrorists was a casualty but heavy gunfire between Kenya'€™s Defence Forces and the attackers were heard Monday morning in what the Kenyan military spokesman Colonel Cyrus Oguna called final push to neutralise the terrorists.
 

Colonel Oguna confirmed four Kenyan soldiers were slightly injured in the exchange of fire and were receiving treatment and the rest were feeling even more determined to win against the terrorists.

"We have secured most of the floors in the building in this delicate operation," Oguna told  The Standard Digital.

It is also not clear how many civilian hostages are holed up in the expansive building but the military said they expected just a handful of civilians were still taken hostage.

The military said the terrorists have been confined to a few pockets within the building as clearing of the mall in stages, room by room and floor by floor was being mounted by the security officers.

Military sources believe Monday will be the final day of assault to regain the building  and rescue hostages.

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