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Kenya says detaining eight people over mall attack, three freed
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Kenyan authorities are holding eight people in connection with a weekend attack on a Nairobi shopping mall, while three others who had been held have now been released, the interior minister said on Friday.
Joseph Ole Lenku also told a news briefing there were no formal reports of people still missing since the attack. The Kenyan Red Cross has previously said dozens were still missing.
He said the death toll remained at 67 civilians and members of the security forces. In addition, officials have also previously said five attackers were killed.
(Reporting by James Macharia; Writing by Edmund Blair)
Jermaine John Grant (C, in white), a British citizen, is guarded by Kenyan police in court in Shanzu, near the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa September 24, 2013. A British police officer testified in Kenya on Thursday in the trial of Grant, who is accused of plotting attacks and who has ties to al Shabaab, the Somali group behind a weekend attack on a Nairobi shopping mall. Grant, an east Londoner, was arrested in December 2011 in a raid by Kenyan anti-terrorism police on his apartment in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, along with a female accomplice, Warda Breik, who police said was his wife. (REUTERS/Joseph Okanga)
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