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350,000 square feet (33,000 m 2) No. of floors. 5. Website. www.westgate.co.ke. Westgate Shopping Mall (also known as Westgate) is an upscale shopping mall located in the Westlands division of Nairobi, Kenya. It was first opened in 2007.
On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upmarket mall in Nairobi, [1] Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the number killed in the attack, since part of the mall collapsed due to a fire that started during the siege. [2]
T-Mall - Nairobi West. The Village Market - Gigiri. Unicity Mall - Kahawa. Ridgeways Mall - Kiambu Road. Nextgen Mall - Mombasa Road [10] Westgate Shopping Mall. Yaya Centre - Hurlingham [11] The Lavington Mall - Lavington. The Southfield Mall - Embakasi.
Westgate, Nairobi. Westgate shopping mall attack, four-day 2013 terrorist attack with at least 67 deaths, resulting in the partial collapse of the mall; Singapore. Westgate, Singapore; United Kingdom. Westgate, Oxford in Oxford, England; Westgate Park Shopping Centre, part of Basildon Town Centre; United States. Westgate Center, California
22 September 2013. (2013-09-22) (aged 22–23) Westgate, Nairobi, Kenya. Nationality. Norwegian, Somalian (formerly) Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow (1990 – 22 September 2013) was a Norwegian-Somalian Islamist terrorist and Al-Shabaab -member who was one of four perpetrators of the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya that killed 71 ...
From late 2011 to 2014, Kenya experienced an upsurge in violent terrorist attacks. Kenyan government officials asserted that many of the murders and blasts were carried out by al-Shabaab in retaliation for Operation Linda Nchi, a coordinated military mission between the Somalian military and Kenyan military that began in October 2011, when troops from Kenya crossed the border into the conflict ...
The attack was the deadliest in Kenya since the 1998 United States embassy bombings, [4] and is the second deadliest overall, with more casualties than the 2002 Mombasa attacks, the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack, [5] the 2014 Nairobi bus bombings, the 2014 Gikomba bombings, the 2014 Mpeketoni attacks and the 2014 Lamu attacks.
Robert Alai, HSC is a Kenyan blogger and cyber - activist. Alai, who used to run the now defunct information technology weblog at Techmtaa.com [1] has earned notoriety for his stream of social rants. He has been sued and briefly incarcerated for his highly opinionated political and sometimes personal attacks on politicians, government officials ...