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A senior figure in the Somali militant group al-Shabab has told the BBC it carried out a deadly attack on a shopping centre in neighbouring Kenya.
The group said the attack was in response to Kenya's presence in Somalia, where its troops have been fighting the militants since 2011.
On its Twitter feed, al-Shabab wrote, "The Mujahideen entered #Westgate Mall today at around noon and are still inside the mall, fighting the #Kenyan Kuffar inside their own turf".
Shebaab said it had "on numerous occasions warned the Kenyan government that failure to remove its forces from Somalia would have severe consequences", without directly claiming responsibility for the assault on the Westgate mall.
"The Kenyan government, however, turned a deaf ear to our repeated warnings and continued to massacre innocent Muslims in Somalia #Westgate," the group tweeted via its @HSM_Press account.
"The attack at #WestgateMall is just a very tiny fraction of what Muslims in Somalia experience at the hands of Kenyan invaders," it said.
Kenyan officials have arrested one gunman .
