{{The group of Islamist gunmen who stormed the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last year, killing at least 67 people, may have entered Kenya from neighbouring Uganda, a senior police official was quoted as saying Saturday.}}<\/p>\n
Uganda’s police chief, General Kale Kayihura, cited intelligence reports indicating that Uganda had been used as a transit stage. He added that Uganda was also still at risk of attack.<\/p>\n
“Even intelligence shows Westgate attackers passed through Uganda,” Uganda’s government spokesman, Ofwono Opondo, quoted the general as saying during a high-level meeting this week of security chiefs and senior government officials.<\/p>\n
“Uganda is being used as a transit route by the terrorists who bomb Kenya,” he added. “We must ensure there is no disturbance in Kampala.”<\/p>\n
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab claimed responsibility for the Westgate attack, saying it was a warning to Kenya to pull its troops out of southern Somalia, where they are fighting the extremists as part of an African Union force.<\/p>\n
Ugandan troops are also fighting as part of the AU force, and in 2010 Shebab bombers killed at least 76 people in restaurants in the Ugandan capital.<\/p>\n
The Westgate gunmen, believed to have numbered just four, were all killed in the siege. <\/p>\n
Four men are currently on trial in Nairobi on charges of providing them with logistical support, although it has been unclear precisely what route they took to Nairobi.<\/p>\n
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