DHAKA: Kenya’s police chief has threatened journalists with arrest after they reported on looting and disarray among security forces during the massacre in Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall.

The media said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.

Police Inspector General David Kimaiyo told reporters it is ‘very clear that there is a limit’ to media freedom.

‘We are looking within the law very closely for those individuals who in one way or another might have committed crimes... that soon they would be apprehended and appear before the court, and face the consequences of this,’ he said.

Journalists from Kenya’s KTN television station, which like other media outlets has reported widely on the ransacking of the upmarket shopping mall as soldiers battled Islamist gunmen in the four-day siege last month, are among those threatened with arrest.

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