Photograph by Raimond Spekking
The UK Foreign Office has confirmed that a British national has been detained in Nairobi, Kenya, with a numbe rof reports that the arrest is related to the terror attack in the Westgate mall.
This confirmation comes after the Daily Mail reported that a 35 year-old British man was detained at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi boarding a Turkish Airlines flight yesterday over possible connections to the attack. The paper reported that the man, believed to be of Somali origin, had bruising to his face and was acting suspiciously, which caught the attention of passport officers. There is also reportedly no record of him entering the country.
There are reports that some members of the al-Shabab attackers switched clothes with some of the hostages in order to escape from the mall undetected.
Earlier reports that the attackers may have included women have been denied by the Islamic militant group who say they do not employ women in such military operations. The group are also claiming that chemical weapons were used by the Kenyan forces in ending the four-day siege, although there have been no reports of this from the ground.
Al-Shabab has claimed that 137 hostages died in the attack, but the Kenyan authorities have put the numbers as 62 dead and 175 injured, with 62 people still in hospital. Kenya has begun three days of national mourning for the victims of the attack.
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