The siege is officially over but shocking details continue to emerge
about what the hostages went through while forces tried to takeover the
mall. The details are sickening and unimaginable..
Below is the report by Daily Mail
Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the
Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered,
had their eyes gouged out and were left hanging from hooks in the
ceiling.
Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed with pliers before being blinded and hanged.
Children were found dead in the food court fridges with knives still embedded in their bodies, it was claimed.
Most of the defeated terrorists, meanwhile, were reportedly discovered
‘burnt to ashes’, set alight by the last extremist standing to try to
protect their identities.
The horrifying details came yesterday as the first pictures emerged from
within the wreckage of the building, showing piles of bodies left
strewn across the floor.
A third of the mall was destroyed in the battle between terrorists and Kenyan troops.
Yesterday, soldiers and doctors who were among the first people into the
mall after it was reclaimed on Tuesday, spoke of the horrifying scenes
inside.
‘You find people with hooks hanging from the roof,’ said one Kenyan doctor, who asked not to be named.They removed eyes, ears, nose. They get your hand and sharpen it like a pencil then they tell you to write your name with the blood.
‘They drive knives inside a child’s body. Actually if you look at all the bodies, unless those ones that were escaping, fingers are cut by pliers, the noses are ripped by pliers. Here it was pain.’
A soldier, who took pictures at a bread counter and at the ArtCaffe,
said he was so traumatised by what he saw he has had to seek
counselling.
Bomb disposal experts with sniffer dogs were yesterday painstakingly
combing the part of the building still standing for explosives before
clearing forensic officers, police and troops to search for bodies.
The main thrust of the operation began at 6am on Monday when troops and
helicopters surrounded the building, but their efforts were hampered by
an Al Shabaab sniper who managed to pin them back for nearly 24 hours.
As tear gas was used to try to flush him out, another terrorist
reportedly blew himself up. It is believed the resulting fire may have
killed dozens of shoppers in a supermarket.
The following day, the soldiers were ordered to adopt a 'shoot to kill'
policy and launched their final attack on the terror group on the roof
of the mall at 5pm.
The mall was retaken about half an hour later.
Between 10 and 15 terrorists are thought to have stormed the mall on Saturday, according to Kenyan officials.
The police said five insurgents were killed in the battle and at least 10 taken into custody.
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