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Monday 20 Jul 2015 - 06:06 Makkah mean time-4-10-1436
 Nairobi (IINA) - Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall reopened for business on Saturday, almost two years after Somali militants stormed in and massacred 67 shoppers and staff in four days of carnage.
The complex, Nairobi’s most upmarket shopping center and a magnet for the East African nation’s growing middle class and expatriates, was badly damaged in the assault by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabab rebels and has undergone months of renovation, AFP reported. Around 50 shoppers queued to be the first to pass through newly-installed metal detectors at the main entrance, after Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero and Atul Shah, owner of the main regional supermarket chain Nakumatt, declared the mall back in business in a ribbon-cutting ceremony. “Today we are excited because we are back on our feet, and we can convince the world that terrorism is not bringing us down,” said Ben Mulla, a 34-year-old communications contractor and a siege survivor.
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