Attack on Westgate shopping mall in Kenya - in pictures

Customers flee the shopping centre during the attack on Saturday Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

A man is carried away by medical personnel. Witnesses say half a dozen grenades went off as shots were fired in and around the shopping centre Photograph: Sayyid Azim/AP

A police officer carries a baby to safety Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images

A police officer takes up position during a shootout with the assailants Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

A woman with her two children rescued from the shopping centre Photograph: Sayyid Azim/AP

A wounded man is escorted to safety Photograph: Sayyid Azim/AP

Security forces take up positions in the mall Photograph: Tyler Hicks/New York Times/Redux/Eyevine

An armed police officer keeps watch as a person is placed in an ambulance outside the Westgate shopping centre Photograph: Sayyid Azim/AP

Police officers search for armed militants Photograph: Tyler Hicks/New York Times/Redux/Eyevine

Rescuers lift an injured man into the back of an ambulance Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

A woman and a child take cover while authorities search for the militants Photograph: Tyler Hicks/New York Times/Redux/Eyevine

An armed police officer searches the shopping centre Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A woman who hid in a ventilation shaft is rescued Photograph: Tyler Hicks/New York Times/Redux/eyevine

A journalist rescues a woman injured in the shootout between the assailants and police Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Two women console each other Photograph: Jason Straziuso/AP

Trucks of Kenyan soldiers arrive at the mall after dawn on Sunday Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

Relatives and friends of victims line up to donate blood Photograph: John Muchucha/AFP/Getty Images

Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, makes a statement outside State House Photograph: John Muchucha/AFP/Getty Images

People shout at police officers as they grow frustrated with the slow development of the operation Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA

A Kenyan soldier walks out of the mall Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters