Experts from countries including the UK, the US and Israel are helping Kenyan authorities as the forensic investigation into the Nairobi mall massacre begins.
The death toll, currently at 67, is expected to rise as bodies are retrieved from beneath the rubble of three collapsed floors.
Specialists from Canada and Germany are also helping gather evidence and reconstruct what happened when al Shabaab militants stormed the shopping centre on Saturday.
Explosives experts and sniffer dogs are also searching for booby traps in the wreckage.
A funeral is held for victims Selima Merali and her daughter Nuriana Merali Six Britons - including an eight-year-old girl - are among the dead, and Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has warned there may be further British victims.
Rumours that a remaining gunman could still be hiding out in the Westgate shopping centre appear to have faded.
Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said that a "forensic audit" - including fingerprinting, DNA testing and ballistic examination - was expected to last at least seven days.
Kenyan troops stormed the shopping complex Work to establish the identities of the terrorists is still under way - including whether one of them was a British woman.
Al Shabaab has denied a female was involved.
The group also claimed on Wednesday that security forces had carried out "a demolition" of the building during the raid, burying 137 hostages in rubble.
A government spokesman denied the claim and said the group was well known for making "wild allegations".
It has been speculated that the attack group was made up of several different nationalities.
However, US Attorney General Eric Holder has said there is so far no verification that any Americans were involved.
People queue to donate blood to help victims of the attack Five attackers were killed during the siege and interrogations of 10 suspects arrested on Sunday are continuing.
Sky News' Stuart Ramsay, in Nairobi, said at least five of those being held are understood to have been part of the initial attack group which sprayed bullets and escaped the mall.
The rest are said to be part of the "support team".
He described how some of those in custody allegedly fled the scene by pretending to be members of the public and mixing in with people being evacuated.
Ramsay said: "Multiple witnesses have said they saw gunmen put down weapons, change clothes and leave with … people being guided out.
"We know of one gentlemen who went to the police and said 'that man was involved in the shooting' - but he was ushered on."
As more details become clear, Ramsay also described how the attackers positioned a sniper to repel soldiers as they attempted to enter the mall during the first day of the siege.
The massacre began when the terrorists marched into the four-storey mall at midday on Saturday, shooting dead shoppers with machine guns and tossing grenades.
Al Shabaab has claimed it carried out the attack in retaliation for Kenya's military intervention in Somalia.
Kenya has begun three days of mourning for the victims of the attack.
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