Update: Kenya Red Cross indicate that death toll rises to 68 in wake of terrorist attack on Westgate Shopping Mall

“My nephew and his fiancée were among those who died in the attack,” he said. “Many of us have lost loved ones. Let us mourn them all as one nation.”

Kenyatta expressed confidence that Kenyan security forces would be able to “successfully neutralize the terrorists” that he said were currently cornered in the building. He said the militants were reported to be both male and female, though that could not confirmed.

“They shall not get away with their despicable an beastly acts,” he said. “Like the cowardly perpetrators now cornered in the building, we will punish the masterminds swiftly and, indeed, very painfully.”

Watch President Uhuru’s Kenyatta statement to Kenyans on the Westgate mall attack

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