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Kenyan Gov't: 2 Somali-Minnesotans Involved In Mall Attack

In an interview with PBS NewsHour, Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamad told Margaret Warner about the Minnesota connection with attackers involved in the Kenyan mall attack. Mohamad confirmed that "two or three Americans" and "one Brit" were involved. "From the information we have, [they] are young men about…between maybe 18 and 19…of Somali origin or Arab origin," Mohamad said. "[They] lived in the U.S. in Minnesota and one other place." Members of the Twin Cities' Somali-American community were already concerned when unconfirmed reports of attackers being from Minnesota surfaced on Sunday.

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