State Dept: 4 US citizens injured in Kenya attack

Published September 21, 2013 8:33pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Four American citizens were reported injured in the Saturday attack on a shopping mall in Kenya. The wife of a foreign service national working for the U.S. Agency for International Development was killed, U.S. officials said.

Kenyan officials said the assault on Nairobi’s top shopping mall killed at least 39 people and wounded more than 150 others. Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility.

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