Nairobi - New CCTV footage from Nairobi's Westgate mall appears to
shows Kenyan soldiers carrying loot out of the besieged mall, attacked
exactly four weeks ago, the Nation newspaper reported on Saturday.
The report comes two days after members of parliament investigating the attack absolved the army of looting.
The
Nation said the 30 minutes of footage showed "scores of soldiers
rummaging through the Nakumatt Supermarket and leaving with white
polythene bags whose contents cannot be seen".
The same footage,
which is from the second day of the siege, when only the army had access
to the mall, shows individual uniformed soldiers putting their guns
down in order to have both hands free to ransack shops.
The four day siege, claimed by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists started September 21 and left at least 67 dead
The
MPs investigating the attack on Thursday said that some owners of
businesses in the mall who said their premises had been looted were just
trying to get compensation from their insurers.
Several business
owners told AFP that they locked their premises before escaping from the
mall only to find them ransacked and with valuables missing when they
were allowed back in after the siege.
- AFP
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