A cry from the slaughterhouse: Mother’s tweets reveal full horror of Nairobi mall terror attack

A terrified survivor of the Nairobi shopping centre terror attack has described the full horror of the carnage in a succession of tweets. Radio presenter Kamal Kaur used Twitter to detail how her son ‘almost had his head blown off’ by gunmen who stormed the Westgate mall on Saturday, killing 68 people including three Britons. Her colleague Ruhila Adatia, who was six months pregnant, was one of those killed in the assault. ‘I still haven’t told my children that their Ruhila Auntie is no more,’ she wrote, tweeting as @kamz26.

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‘I don’t know how to. I can’t. They’re still in shock and wounded.’

Ms Kaur, who was attending a children’s cookery event in the centre, told Channel 4 News: ‘In my corner where I was, I had at least 30, 35 kids with me. At that moment, the guys came out. People were hysterical, obviously.

‘They threw two grenades at us and they shot at us.’

Somali terror group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack in the Kenyan capital, amid reports a 24-year-old man from London was among the gunmen.

Kenyan troops crawl through the Westgate mall during the operation to clear it of terrorists (Picture: AFP/Getty)

Using a Twitter account that has since been suspended, it published a list of six people it claimed took part in the slaughter.

The group said it was holding at least 36 people hostage in the mall.

On Sunday night the Kenyan armed forces launched an operation to end the incident, saying it hadreleased most of the hostages and was in control of the majority of the shopping complex.

Prime minister David Cameron said: ‘It is an absolutely sickening and despicable attack of appalling brutality. Because the situation is ongoing we should prepare ourselves for further bad news.’

Source:metro.co.uk