India said Sunday that two of its nationals were among 39 people killed in the Kenyan mall carnage Saturday.

While one of the victims, 40-year-old Sridhar Natarajan, was working with a pharma firm, an eight-year-old boy Paramshu Jain, another victim, was the son of a manager of the local branch of an Indian bank, a spokesperson in the Indian External Affairs Ministry said.

"Four Indians, including two women and a girl, were injured in the attack and are receiving medical treatment," the spokesperson said.

Indian media has compared the massacre with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which over 170 people were killed.

"26/11-like attack in Kenya, Indians among 39 killed," read The Times of India newspaper's headline, followed by the news story intended to drawing a comparison with the Mumbai massacre on Nov. 26, 2008, which was carried out by some 10 Pakistani militants who had entered the country's financial capital through sea route from the port city of Karachi.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has in a televised address to the nation confirmed the death toll and added that Kenya had " overcome terrorist attacks before, and we will defeat them again".

Somalia's al-Qaida-linked Shebab group has claimed responsibility for the attack in which some 150 people also sustained bullet injuries as gunmen lobbed grenades and fired indiscriminately at the upscale shopping mall in Kenyan capital Nairobi.

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