‘Pinned Down’
Kenyan security forces wounded one gunman and have“several others pinned down,” Kenyan Police Inspector-General David Kimaiyo said on his Twitter feed.
An unknown number of hostages were being held in the Nakumatt supermarket at the mall, Abbas Gullet, secretary-general of the Kenya Red Cross, said yesterday in a phone interview from Nairobi.
The U.S. “condemns in the strongest terms the despicable terrorist attack on innocent civilians” and has offered the Kenyan government “our full support” in bringing the attackers to justice, according to a White House statement. American citizens were injured in the assault, according to the statement. Two Canadians, including a female diplomat, and two French citizens were among the victims, according to their governments.