EA security chiefs meet over common approach to terror attacks, piracy
Shoppers scramble for safety as police confronted gunmen who barricaded themselves inside Westgate Mall in Nairobi, on September 21, 2013. PHOTO | GORAN TOMASEVIC | REUTERS
As Kenya counted down days to this week’s sixth anniversary of the Westgate Mall attack by the Al Shabaab militant group, police chiefs from across the region congregated in the Tanzanian city of Arusha, to devise strategies of dealing with cross-border crime and terror networks.
The Westgate Mall attack, which was orchestrated by four gunmen led by a Norwegian of Somali origin, occurred on the morning of Saturday, September 21 2013, leaving more than 70 dead and damage to property worth millions of dollars.
