DHAKA: Two or three Americans and one Briton were among those who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall.

Kenya’s foreign minister said Monday, NDTV says.

More than 60 people have been killed in the assault on the upscale mall, which has lasted for three days.

The foreign minister, Amina Mohamed, said in an interview with the Public Broadcasting Service’s ‘NewsHour’ programme that the Americans were 18 to 19 years old, of Somali or Arab origin and lived ‘in Minnesota and one other place’ in the US.

The attacker from Britain was a woman who has ‘done this many times before’, Mohamed said.

Authorities in Kenya were trying to wrap up their bloody standoff with al-Shabab, a group allied with al-Qaida.

US officials said they were looking into whether any Americans were involved. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday the department had ‘no definitive evidence of the nationalities or the identities’ of the attackers.

White House spokesman Ben Rhodes said US officials have seen ‘reports coming out of al-Shabab that indicate information along those lines’, referring to possible involvement of Americans in the attack.

‘But we have to run those to ground, of course,’ he said.

‘We do monitor very carefully and have for some time been concerned about efforts by al-Shabab to recruit Americans or US persons to come to Somalia.’

‘This is an issue that has been tracked very closely by the US government, and it’s one that we’ll be looking into in the days ahead.’

There was no answer at the Kenyan Mission at the United Nations on Monday night.

BDST: 1340 HRS, SEPT 24, 2013
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