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The four bodies recovered from the ongoing forensic investigations after the Sept. 21 terrorist attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall belong to the terrorists, the Kenyan government said on Sunday.
Cabinet Secretary in charge of Internal Security Joseph Ole Lenku said three bodies were retrieved from the site on Thursday and a fourth one was recovered on Sunday which he said are those of the terrorists.
"This week we recovered three bodies which we believe to be those of terror suspects. Today, Sunday October 20 2013, we recovered a fourth body, which we know from CCTV footage to be that of a terrorist. DNA and other investigations will confirm their identities," Lenku said in a statement released in Nairobi.
He said experts have been conducting forensic investigations for the past few weeks following the terror attack on the Westgate Mall.
Lenku said security officers have also recovered four AK47 assault rifles which were used by the terrorists in the assault which left over 70 people dead and over 200 others injured.
"We also recovered 11 magazines of AK47 assault rifles. We continue to dig through the rubble at Westgate. We are determined to bring this chapter to a close by identifying the terrorists responsible for the attack, including those who planned it," Lenku said.
"We wish not to comment on various reports on nationalities of the terrorists until we complete forensic investigations," he added.
Kenyan authorities are currently holding over 40 suspects for interrogation in connection with the Nairobi mall terror attack.
The East African country has recently admitted that the threat of terror attacks remains real, but security personnel are on high alert. The Al-Shabaab militia group, which is aligned to Al-Qaida network, said before that it would attack Kenya.
The militants claimed responsibility for the Sept. 21 attacks in retaliation for the Kenya's cross-border incursion in southern Somalia in 2011.
