Extended gunfire and at least seven large explosions resounded Monday at an upscale shopping mall in Kenya where heavily armed militants were still believed to be holding hostages on the third day of a standoff that has left at least 62 people dead.
A column of thick, black smoke rose from one section of the mall. Kenyan authorities, who vowed the night before to end the siege, said that they had the gunmen and hostages confined to one section of the mall.
David Kimaiyo, the inspector general of the Kenyan police, said on Twitter early Monday that more hostages had been rescued and that authorities were “increasingly gaining advantage of the attackers.”
Details were hard to come by, but there were believed to be 10 to 15 militants still in the mall, and 10 to 15 hostages.
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