Two charred bodies pulled from Kenya's Westgate shopping centre are "highly likely" to be two of the attackers, says a senior investigator.
An MP, and chairman of the committee investigating the attack, Ndung'u Gethenji, said AK47 rifles used by the militants were found next to the bodies.
The authorities will now conduct forensic tests on the bodies.
At least 67 people died when suspected al-Shabab militants stormed the Nairobi shopping centre on 21 September.
The attack sparked a four-day siege in which large parts of the shopping centre were destroyed.
The Kenyan authorities have released the names, or nicknames, of four suspects in the attack, but have given few other details.
But Norwegian investigators believe 23-year-old Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow was one of the gunmen.
They said that the man seen on CCTV footage dressed in black with the bloodied leg was a Norwegian citizen whose family fled Somalia's long war.
The Kenya Red Cross lists 23 people as still missing.
Mr Gethenji said the bodies recovered on Thursday were likely to be militants because the army does not use AK47s.
He said another body recovered from the rubble was likely to be a soldier.
It is still not clear whether some of the attackers might have escaped, or even how many attackers there were.
Officials initially said 10 to 15 gunmen were involved, but CCTV footage appears to show only four militants.
The BBC reported that one of the suspected attackers is a 23-year-old Somalia-born Norwegian national, Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow.
His family fled to Norway in the 1990s, but he returned to Somalia in 2009 and allegedly joined the Somali militant group.
Dhuhulow attended a training camp in El Bur in central Somalia, one of the militants' main bases.
The BBC reported that Dhuhulow took part in many al-Shabab operations in Mogadishu and Kismayo and was well-known in jihadist circles.
Journalist Zubayr Roble in Oslo told the BBC that Dhuhulow frequented the Towfiq Mosque in the Norwegian capital.
Mr Roble said Somalis at the mosque for Friday prayers were in shock about the revelations and anxious over the possible implications the case could have for the Somali community in Norway.
Martin Bernsen, an officer in Norway's Security Service, said that Norwegian authorities had opened an investigation into the involvement of a Norwegian citizen in the attack "about one week ago".
"We are trying to find out his role and what his connections are. We don't know if he alive or if he is dead."
When asked if the authorities had previously been aware of any previous similar activity among Somalis in Norway, Mr Bernsen said; "It's not the Somalis we're worried about, it's the criminal element.
"We are aware that there are some activities. We have challenges in Norway regarding both al-Shabab and al-Qaeda. Al-Shabab was first known in Norway in 2007 when we investigated money transfer to al-Shabab".
Mr Bernsen said Norwegian authorities were also concerned about people travelling to "conflict areas", including Syria and Somalia, particularly in the past year.
The BBC's Will Ross in Nairobi says Kenyans still feel there are a lot of unanswered questions, and will be shocked if it turns out that just four gunmen caused such havoc.
The Somali militant group al-Shabab said its members staged the attack in response to Kenya's army carrying out operations on Somali territory.
There are about 4000 Kenyan troops in the south of Somalia, where they have been fighting the militants since 2011.
Uganda also has troops in Somalia, and the authorities have issued an alert and stepped up security after the US embassy warned of reports of a possible "Westgate-style attack" in Kampala.
Al-Shabab is fighting to create an Islamic state in Somalia and is banned as a terrorist group by both the US and the UK,
The Islamist group, which is believed to have between 7000 and 9000 fighters, controls large parts of Somalia.
