IslamicTerrorists At The Kenyan Shopping Mall Threaten To Blow Themselves Up With The Remaining Hostages

The Kenyan shopping mall where Islamic terrorists are holding shoppers hostage is on fire as and a fierce gun battle is underway as the special forces try to bring an end to the three day siege.

Witnesses say they have heard multiple explosions at the Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi.

Security forces say they have freed some but not all of the hostages. 

Islamic terrorists who have been barricaded in a Kenyan shopping mall today threatened to kill all their remaining hostages as special forces moved in to end the two day siege which has left 69 dead.

Witnesses said they heard this morning multiple large explosions within the vast Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi and there were reports of gunfire in the streets outside.

Thick black smoke was then seen billowing from the mall. This morning it emerged that a British man had lost his wife and daughter in the massacre while a prize winning architect, who had joint British and Australian nationality was also among the dead.

Ross Langdon, 33, was killed alongside his heavily pregnant Dutch partner Elif Yavuz (both pictured above). The malaria specialist was just two weeks away from giving birth.

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