Westgate mall terror attack suspects Mohamed Ahmed Abdi (right), Liban Abdullah Omar (centre) and Adan Hussein Hassan Mustafah at the Milimani Law Courts for the judgment on October 7, 2020./ Photo Credit: Dennis Onsongo, Nation Media Group.
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A court in Kenyan capital Nairobi has found two men guilty of helping al- Shabaab fighters launch an assault on Westgate shopping mall in 2013 that killed at least 67 people.
A third man, who also faced charges under the country’s terrorism-prevention act, was acquitted on all charges in the judgment that was announced on Wednesday.
The trial is the only prosecution Kenya has mounted so far over the attack carried out by al-Shabab fighters.
It comes more than seven years after gunmen from the Somalia-based armed group al-Shabab carried out the attack.
“The prosecution has proved its case against the accused on charges of conspiracy of committing a terrorist act and supporting a terrorist group,” Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi said as he read out the verdict.
Somali based armed group al Shabaab has launched a wave of deadly terror attacks inside Kenya in retaliation for Kenyan military incursion into southern Somalia in late 2011.
