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Report: Police ‘prophesied’ massacre

Eight months after the September 2013 Westgate Shopping Mall attack, an assessment of the terrorism landscape by the Kenyan detectives showed that the Government was fearful of another operation or bigger attacks.

Less than a month after the sobering May 2014 assessment, Al-Shabaab attacked Mpeketoni and Poromoko in Kilifi County and killed 65 people.

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