The number of
missing in the Westgate shopping centre attack has gone down to 39
against an earlier figure of 61, the Kenyan Red Cross says.
It says fourteen of the missing have been found alive and seven bodies were in the morgue, it said.
67 people were killed after al-Shabab militants stormed the Westgate centre in the capital, Nairobi, on 21 September, according to the Red Cross.
It says some relatives were not updating them when they found people who had been reported as missing.
"Some were reports from people who could not get through to their relatives on the phone and thought they might have been at the mall," a Red Cross tracing manager told the BBC, while calling those who reported people missing for updates.
There are hardly any people still unaccounted for after the attack and that it did not think any hostages were killed when a car park collapsed inside the mall, ending the siege, according to the government.
Even though Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku accepts that some more bodies might still be discovered - with the rubble still being moved.
It says fourteen of the missing have been found alive and seven bodies were in the morgue, it said.
67 people were killed after al-Shabab militants stormed the Westgate centre in the capital, Nairobi, on 21 September, according to the Red Cross.
It says some relatives were not updating them when they found people who had been reported as missing.
"Some were reports from people who could not get through to their relatives on the phone and thought they might have been at the mall," a Red Cross tracing manager told the BBC, while calling those who reported people missing for updates.
There are hardly any people still unaccounted for after the attack and that it did not think any hostages were killed when a car park collapsed inside the mall, ending the siege, according to the government.
Even though Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku accepts that some more bodies might still be discovered - with the rubble still being moved.
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