BBC News with Jonathan Izard.

The security forces in Kenya are still trying to flush out the Islamist militants who carried out Saturday’s attack on the Westgate shopping mall in the capital Nairobi. The Kenyan authorities say 62 people have died. At least three gunmen are also reported to have been killed. Gabriel Gatehouse sent this report from the outside of the shopping centre.

Well, you can hear some firing starting up again now. We are just going to take a little bit of cover behind this truck. There’s been about an hour or so of low, during which that smoke has continued to rise, but appeared of calm, and now suddenly this firing. We don’t know what’s going on inside, but certainly it sounds to me very much like that’s fire going into the shopping centre. The shooting seems to have calmed down a little bit for now, but we can still see some of those soldiers there in the distance-- certainly look like there, taking a covering position behind that wall.

The Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku has told the BBC that the siege was at its tail end. He said that Kenya would not be cowed by the Somali movement al-Shabab, which is believed to have carried out the attack. He said Kenyan troops will stay in Somalia along with Amisom, the African Union Mission in Somalia, and will intensify their presence.

“Our business and our intention to go to Somalia was for some very clear reason. We have unfinished business there. We are going to continue to be there. And this attack would only make our resilience and our position very clear that al-Shabab posed a real threat not only to Kenya, but East Africa. And therefore, we would not be cowed and would not consider whether we need to rethink our activities there. If anything, using the aim of Amisom, we are only going to intensify our presence.”