Nairobi mall attack: forensics teams frustrated at delays reaching bodies Kenya's Army has faced intense criticisms of the way that it handled the siege and its chaotic climax, when rocket-propelled grenades were understood to have been fired at the building's support columns to bring its roof down. It is still not clear whether any hostages being held by the terrorist gang were still alive when the shopping centre collapsed. Kenya's government has said that at that point there were either "an insignificant number" of hostages, or none at all. But there are suggestions that delays to removing bodies from the rubble could be because Kenya wanted to avoid investigators discovering that at least some people died in the building collapse and not at the hands of the terrorists. "If there are bodies back there of guys who didn't die from bullet wounds or gunshots, then there is the assumption that they could have been saved," one diplomatic source said. We're still pretty sure that there is a very low chance of that, however. Business owners with stores in the shopping centre continued to report that their goods were looted, and demanded inquiries as to whether Kenyan armed forces were to blame. As stakeholders we have many unanswered questions. Cash safes were emptied and we don't know how," said Muchiri Wahome, the chief executive of Deacons Ltd, which has three shops at Westgate. We thought it was a gunfight in there that had nothing to do with cash and goods. But we are shocked to see that our shops were emptied," Wahome said. Meanwhile, British police are appealing for witnesses to the Westgate massacre onboard all flights from Nairobi to London. Passengers on flights from the Kenyan capital are being instructed to inform border police at immigration if they were at the shopping mall during the Al-Shabaab attack or if they think they might have information.