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Kenyan MPs to quiz security chiefs

         Security chiefs have been summoned to appear before parliament's defence committee for questioning over the Westgate mall siege.Sources say a blame game is playing out in the Kenyan media, with various security agencies point the finger at each other.  Sixty-seven people are known to have died in the attack, while Kenya's Red Cross says 61 people are still missing. Forensic experts are still combing the complex, looking for bodies and clues. Somali Islamist group al-Shabab says it was behind the attack and subsequent four-day siege at the upmarket mall in Nairobias westlands area. Kenya is in its third day of official mourning for both the civilian and military victims of the siege.

                    The country is in its third day of official mourning for both the civilian and military victims of the siege. President Uhuru Kenyatta is attending the funeral of his nephew and his nephew's fiancee at a church service in the capital, Nairobi, where he has addressed the congregation. Mbugua Mwangi and Rosemary Wahito were among those killed in the mall on Saturday. The court which has already given him a one-week adjournment, said the trial must resume on 2 October. Mr. Ruto denies the charges. The heads of the various security agencies have been summoned to appear before the parliamentary defence committee on Monday amid rising concern over the authorities preparedness for such an attack.

                     They will later be buried in Ichaweri village in Gatundu about an hour's drive from Nairobi. The summoning of the heads of the various security agencies to appear before the parliamentary defence committee on Monday comes amid rising concern among Kenyans over the authorities prepardness for such an attack. Local media have reported that National Intelligence Service boss Michael Gichangi, one of those are to appear before the committee, passed on Intelligence about a possible attack to the police. Some 2,500 people paid their respects to her and another woman killed in the siege. They had been taking part in a children's cooking competition on the rooftop car park, when gunmen stormed the shopping centre. About 4,000 Kenyan troops have been sent to Somalia to help progovernment forces battle al-Shabab. The group is banned as a terrorist group by both the US and the UK and is believed to have between 7,000 and 9,000 fighters. Its members are fighting to create an Islamic state in Somalia.

 
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