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Westgate attackers 'drove to Kenya, trained in Somalia'

The four militants behind the Westgate mall attack in Kenya travelled into the country overland from Somalia in June, a Western official has told the BBC.

The senior official said they had entered at a "common entry point" and then stayed in Eastleigh, a suburb in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

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