(15 Jan 2014) The trial of four men arrested in conjunction with the Westgate Mall attack opened in a Nairobi court on Wednesday.
Mohamed Ahmed Abdi, Liban Abdullah Omar, and Hussein Hassan Mustafah have been charged with knowingly supporting the perpetrators of the attack that killed at least 67 people.
Adan Dheq is accused of harbouring militant Islamic suspects.
Witnesses recounted the events of the September 21 2013 attack in front of a packed courtroom filled with the suspects' relatives and the media.
Stephen Juma, who worked as a security guard at the Westgate Mall, spoke of the confusion when the attack took place.
"I do not know where they went because after they shot that customer, I started hearing more gunfire from the direction they had come from," he said.
The Somali Islamist extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was in retaliation for Kenya's deployment of troops in southern Somalia.
The court will hear from more than 40 witnesses and will continue till the end of the week.
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