DHAKA: Kenyan police are holding five people over last month`s attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall, a top officer said on Tuesday, adding they hoped to charge them soon.

At least 67 people were killed in the attack on the upmarket mall claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents.

Ndegwa Muhoro, head of Kenya’s Police Criminal Investigation Department, told reporters that investigations were still ongoing into exchanges of mobile telephone text messages in the days prior to the four-day siege that began on September 21.

‘We wanted to arraign five of the terrorists in court yesterday, but we have decided to first investigate an SMS exchange of the terrorists which occurred on September 17,’ he said, reports The Straits Times.

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