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Photos: Kenya's Westgate mall reopens, nearly two years after Al Shabaab terror attack

FP Staff July 21, 2015, 16:06:01 IST

After a bloody terror attack nearly two years ago, Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall reopened its doors to shoppers on Saturday.

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Photos: Kenya's Westgate mall reopens, nearly two years after Al Shabaab terror attack

[caption id=“attachment_2354632” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] A security guard patrols outside the reopened Westgate Shopping Mall, nearly two years after a terrorist attack there left at least 67 people dead, in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, July 18, 2015. Hundreds of shoppers thronged through the reopened mall Saturday, following two years of repairs after security forces battled four gunmen from Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group there in September 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) After a bloody terror attack nearly two years ago, Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall reopened its doors to shoppers on Saturday. AP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2354636” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Shoppers look out through glass elevators in the reopened Westgate Shopping Mall, nearly two years after a terrorist attack there left at least 67 people dead, in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, July 18, 2015. Hundreds of shoppers thronged through the reopened mall Saturday, following two years of repairs after security forces battled four gunmen from Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group there in September 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) While many of the same stores have moved back in, the mall’s reopening has met with a mixed reaction from survivors of the assault that left 67 people dead, Kenyans and foreigners among them. AP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2354638” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Ted Odhiambo, who said he used to work in one of the mall’s shops, poses while his friend takes a photograph of him in the reopened Westgate Shopping Mall, nearly two years after a terrorist attack there left at least 67 people dead, in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, July 18, 2015. Hundreds of shoppers thronged through the reopened mall Saturday, following two years of repairs after security forces battled four gunmen from Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group there in September 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Somali terror group Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the bloody four-day siege at the upscale mall in Nairobi, which began on 21 September 2013. AP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2354640” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] A waiter looks out over the mall as shoppers sit down in a cafe in the reopened Westgate Shopping Mall, nearly two years after a terrorist attack there left at least 67 people dead, in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, July 18, 2015. Hundreds of shoppers thronged through the reopened mall Saturday, following two years of repairs after security forces battled four gunmen from Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group there in September 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) There is no visible evidence of the horrors that unfolded over the course of the brutal 80-hour siege. Walls have been plastered and repainted, shattered glass replaced. AP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2354642” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] A boy plays in a supermarket shopping cart as other shoppers visit the reopened Westgate Shopping Mall, nearly two years after a terrorist attack there left at least 67 people dead, in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, July 18, 2015. Hundreds of shoppers thronged through the reopened mall Saturday, following two years of repairs after security forces battled four gunmen from Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group there in September 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Surveillance video from the mall showed gunmen casually shooting some civilians. They reportedly also tortured some hostages, according to military doctors who saw evidence of severed hands and noses. They hanged others. AP[/caption]

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