Turkey on Monday strongly condemned a Somalia-based terrorist group's deadly attack on a shopping mall in Kenya on Saturday that claimed at least 69 lives.

Turkey expresses deep sorrow over the attack that killed at least 69 people and injured 175 and was claimed by Al Shabab organization, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

These terrorist attacks aimed at damaging Somalia's administration and its people's will to build peace and develop relations with neighboring countries, it added.

Turkey, by this mean, reiterates its solidarity with Kenyan people, said the statement.

On Saturday, the Somali al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab stormed the mall in the Kenyan capital with grenades and gunfire, killing tens of people and holding shoppers hostages, the Kenyan security forces responded with an assault late Sunday on the mall.

Security forces have been attempting to rescue an unknown number of hostages inside the mall.

Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the terror attack on Nairobi's renowned Westgate shopping mall, saying it is avenging Kenya's military intervention in southern Somalia in October 2011 against the militant group. Endi

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