Spanish expatriate in Nairobi: “My daughter and I hid for four hours in a changing room”
Monday, September 23, 2013 @ 10:07 AM
A SPANISH woman who was caught up in the terrorist shoot-out in Nairobi has described first-hand the horrors she and her 12-year-old daughter witnessed.
Silvia, originally from the Canary Islands, has lived in the Kenyan capital for 22 years and like many other middle and upper class expatriates and natives, frequently attends the Westgate shopping centre where a gang from the Al-Shabab squad, linked to Al-Qaeda, opened fire and killed 30 people last week.
Silvia, her daughter and two other children who had become separated from their parents sought refuge in a changing room in Woolworth's, where they hid out for four hours listening to the gunfire.
They were eventually helped out of the building via the roof by emergency services.
The terrorists had forced their way into the centre via Nakumatt, one of Kenya's main supermarket chains.
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