Watch this heart breaking account from eyewitness Kamal Kaur about how she and her children escaped Westgate Mall as the shots were being fired.

The deadly attack at Westgate Mall in Nairobi has shocked and affected many not only in Kenya, but around the world. Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group based in Somalia with links to Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility. Kenya has in the past been involved in Somalia to curb the threat of Al-Shabaab, but to no avail.

Read: Al-Shabaab grew amid Somalia's lawlessness

In this exclusive interview, Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed asserts that what happened on Saturday in Nairobi is a continuance of what the world has been fighting since 9/11, and that is the work of Al Qaeda.