(VOVworld) - Kenyan government ministers received warnings of a possible attack before al-Shabab gunmen stormed the Westgate shopping centre.

Leaked intelligence briefings detailed plans for attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa, according to Kenyan media. Four cabinet ministers and the head of Kenya's defense forces are said to have been informed. Kenya's Daily Nation quotes counter-terrorism reports as saying that briefings were given to the ministers "informing them of increasing threat of terrorism and of plans to launch simultaneous attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa around September 13 and 20, 2013". At least 67 people were killed after al-Shabab stormed the mall on September 21.