The scale of the attacks exceeds even the horror of the murders of journalists working for Charlie Hebdo, and subsequent killings in January this year. It is far more reminiscent, given the numbers of victims and the sophistication of the attacks, of the terrorist assault on Mumbai, in India, in 2008 in which 164 people died; or of the 67 killings during a four-day siege at the Westgate shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2013.
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