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Kenya commemorates Westgate siege anniversary

Candles are lit on September 20, 2015 at a memorial of more than 60 victims of Westgate mall terror attack in 2013. [Photo: AFP]

Kenyans held prayers and lit candles in Nairobi on Monday to mark the second anniversary commemorations of the Westgate shopping mall attack by Somalia's Al shabaab militants.

In the Nakumatt supermarket inside the mall, where many of those who died in the attack were killed, staff held prayers, as shoppers went about normal business in the redecorated building.

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