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[Published: Saturday October 26 2013]

Kenya sacks immigration officers over Westgate attack
Nairobi, 26 Oct - (ANA) - Kenya's interior minister has sacked 15 immigration officers as investigations into the Westgate mall siege continue. Joseph Ole Lenku said the officials had endangered national security by issuing ID documents to illegal immigrants. He also said the government would start repatriating Somali refugees to prevent further attacks. At least 67 people died when militants from the Somali Islamist al-Shabab group attacked the Nairobi shopping centre last month. Kenya is host to the largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab - home to about half a million people - near the  Somali border, while it is believed that more than 30,000 Somali refugees live in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, alone.(ANA)

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