A CCTV image shows three armed terrorists entering a bank in the Nairobi shopping centre
The group is thought to include
families who were attending a cookery demonstration by a TV chef Ruhila
Adatia-Sood, who was six months pregnant and died in the attack.
They were eventually rescued by the Red Cross, who arrived with stretchers as the terrorists moved inside the building.
For
many it was their choice of hiding place that made the difference
between death or survival.
Some security camera footage shows gunmen
raking toilet cubicles with gunfire, apparently after learning that
people were hiding inside.
Other attackers took the time to
divide Muslims from non-Muslims after demanding that some recite the
Shahada, the Muslim profession of faith.
A man trapped inside the shopping centre told The Mail on Sunday he had a clear view of a woman brandishing a sniper rifle.
Achebe Odida, 42, a glass engraver, described how he hid under the
counter of a mobile phone shop as the shooting began and raised his head
to look out of the window.
‘I saw a woman wearing a black headscarf and a black shawl over a pink top and black trousers,’ he said.
‘While
shoppers were running and screaming through the mall, she moved slowly
and calmly to take up position behind a pillar. She looked like a Somali
woman, tall and slender with dark skin.’
He saw her brandishing the rifle as if to take aim, but did not see her shooting anyone.
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