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8 gut-wrenching images as Kenya mourns Westgate attack victims

Griving relatives console each other on September 26, 2013 during the funeral ceremony for Kenyan journalist Ruhila Adatia-Sood in Nairobi. Getty Images

Kenya began three days of mourning for the victims of the Nairobi mall attack Wednesday.

That siege killed at least 67 people, including two Canadians, and there are fears the death toll could double once officials sift through all the rubble.

READ MORE: Canada offers support to Kenya after mall attack, Canadians among victims

Al-Shabab has warned that Kenyan troops must be “prepared for an abundance of blood” if they remain in Somalia.

On Thursday, journalist Ruhila Adatia-Sood was laid to rest. Adatia-Sood was a well-known TV and radio personality in Kenya.

She was six months’ pregnant with her first child.

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Mourners observe the burning body of Sridhar Natarajan, who was killed at the at the Westgate Mall attack during his cremation ceremony on September 26, 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo credit: Getty Images)

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Mourners gather at the Sikh funeral of Dalvinder Kaur Ghataurhae and her grandson Pavraj Singh Ghataurhae, 16, at the Hindi Crematorium in Nairobi on September 25, 2013, after they were killed in the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall. (Photo credit: Getty Images). Getty Images
Workers at the Shia Imami Ismailia cemetry arrange flowers on September 26 ,2013 on the grave of Kenyan journalist Ruhila Adatia-Sood during her funeral ceremony in Nairobi.  (Photo credit: Getty Images). Getty Images
A relative mourns during a funeral service for Selima Merali (41) and her daughter Nuriana Merali (15), who were killed in the attack by gunmen at the Westgate Shopping Centre, on September 25, 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo credit: Getty Images). Getty Images
Agnes Mutua, identifyed her nephew Christopher Kennedy Chewa who was killed during the Westgate Mall attack, mourns after being informed that the mortuary refuses to release his body on September 25, 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo credit: Getty Images). Getty Images

A cemetery worker takes away his tools after the funeral for Selima Merali (41) and her daughter Nuriana Merali (15), who were killed in the attack by gunmen at the Westgate Shopping Centre, on September 25, 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo credit: Getty Images)

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Ramesh Vaya, center, is comforted by family members after lighting the funeral pyre for his wife Malti, who was shot dead in the attack on the Westgate Mall, at her funeral at the Hindu Crematorium in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (Photo credit: AP Photo)

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