In pictures: Kenya shootout in Nairobi's Westgate mall

Kenyan soldiers are pictured near Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre on Monday September 23 as the siege continues for a third night. — Image caption,
Military activity continued outside Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre late on Monday as the crisis entered its third night.

Members of Nairobi's Somali community deliver food and drinks to soldiers and security personnel near the shopping centre as darkness falls on Monday September 23.

Members of Nairobi's Somali community delivered food and drinks to soldiers and security personnel as darkness fell.

A Kenya Army helicopter flies behind a plume of black smoke billowing from the Westgate Mall, following large explosions and heavy gunfire, in Nairobi, Kenya (September 23)

Plumes of black smoke billowed from the mall following large explosions.

Kenyan Terror Attack: Paramedics run for cover on September 23, 2013 outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi after heavy shooting started.

Shooting could be heard throughout Monday as security forces swept the complex for hostages and militants.

Police officers and members of the media take cover at a distance from the Westgate Shopping Centre after continuous gunfire was heard on September 23, 2013.

Police officers and members of the media were repeatedly forced to take cover during sporadic bursts of gunfire.

Kenyan soldiers take cover after heavy gunfire near Westgate mall in Nairobi (23 September 2013)

Kenyan security forces surrounded the Westgate mall in Nairobi as dawn broke on Monday.

Military forces take position inside a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi (21 September 2013)

A video from inside the shopping centre showed the army taking up positions on Saturday.

A woman and two children take cover behind a bar inside a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi (21 September 2013)

Civilians were still sheltering inside the mall.

Kenyan troops taking position inside the Westgate mall in Nairobi (21 September 2013)

The death toll from the assault has been put at 62.

Shoppers raise their arms as they are evacuated from the Westgate mall (21 Sept. 2013) (screengrab)

These shoppers were escorted to safety by security forces.

A grieving son is comforted as he waits outside the morgue (23 Sept 2013)

Outside the city morgue, this man took in the news of his father's death.

The father (R) of Nehal Vekaria, a 16-year-old female student who was killed during the Westgate Shopping Centre, holds a stick lit with fire at her cremation ceremony in Nairobi (22 September 2013)

Some of those who were killed have already been buried or cremated, in line with local customs. Here the father of 16-year-old Nehal Vekaria lights the funeral pyre for his daughter's cremation.

Onlookers gather on a hill to observe the Westgate Mall after a bout of heavy gunfire just after dawn in Nairobi, Kenya (23 Sept. 2013)

As heavy gunfire was heard on Monday morning, people gathered on a hill near the mall to wait for news.

Kenyans line up to donate blood for victims in Sunday's terrorist attack on a shopping mall, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya (23 Sept. 2013)

Many Kenyans came forward to donate blood for the large numbers of wounded.

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