CEOAFRICA gathered that a 23-year-old Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow Norwegian citizen of Somali origin is named as being a suspect who helped to plan and carry out the attack on Kenyan mall.

According to source, Last week Norway's intelligence agency, the PST, said it had sent officers to Kenya to verify reports that a Norwegian citizen had been involved in the assault on the shopping centre, which began on Saturday 21 September and lasted four days.

An expert on security and political Islam based in Norway, Stig Hansen, said that he was not surprised to learn that a Norwegian citizen was suspected of taking part in the attack. He said that an estimated 20-30 Norwegians had gone to Somalia to sign up as fighters for the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

However, when a relative of his was interviewed on BBC Newsnight he said "I don't know what I feel or think... If it is him, he must have been brainwashed."

Two charred bodies have however been pulled from Kenya's Westgate shopping centre on Thursday are "highly likely" to be two of the attackers source said.

According Ndung'u Gethenji, chairman of the committee investigating the attack, AK47 rifles used by the militants were found next to the bodies.

The authorities will now conduct forensic tests on the bodies.

At least 67 people died when suspected al-Shabab militants stormed the Nairobi shopping centre on 21 September.