Two Indians Among 68 Killed, Kenya Hostage Crisis Continues

Natarajan's wife Manjula Sridhar was injured in the attack while the mother and sister of Paramshu - Mukta Jain, 38, and Poorvi Jain, 12 - were also injured.

The fourth injured is Natarajan Ramachandran, an employee of Flamingo Duty Free, Nairobi, according to official sources.

Senior officers of the Indian High Commission in Nairobi, including High Commissioner Sibabrata Tripathi, were present at the two major medical facilities that received casualties during the day - th dealy e Aga Khan University Hospital and M.P. Shah Hospital, sources said.

The dead included two French, two Canadians, three Britons, one Chinese and one Ghanaian.

The siege of the Westgate shopping mall, an elite shopping centre housing supermarkets, restaurants, banks and forex bureaus, began Saturday morning when the heavily armed militants, numbering between 10 and 15, stormed the well-secured facility spraying bullets on shoppers before taking hundreds hostage.

The attackers, including a woman, claimed they were on a revenge mission to avenge Kenya's involvement in the Somalia conflict.

Kenya has sent thousands of troops to the war-torn country to fight the terror group and has liberated sections of the east African nation from the hands of the militia.

Hundreds of Kenyan police and troops have maintained a heavy presence at the besieged shopping mall and managed to rescue hundreds of shoppers taken hostage by the gang, including three women Sunday morning.