I don't know if any DRs have been paying any attention to the horrible terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi this week, but this one picture of a lone little girl fleeing the shooting is an image I can't seem to shake. One wonders where her family is, How frightening for her and all of other kids in the mall (there was a popular kids cooking contest going on at the time of the attack.)
Awww. I thought the children were told they could leave. I read a story of a mother & her two children who left. The 4 year old boy told one of the gunman he was a badman and the gunman apologized.
No. Unfortunately there are a number of children who died, particularly where the annual cooking contest was being held, which is also where the attack began. The host of the cooking contest was a very popular television host. She unfortunately died, as did her husband.
The two children that were allowed to leave was just a single incident and mainly because the mom told the shooter what he wanted to hear.
There hasn't been much detailed reporting in the US media for some reason. But I have been reading a lot online from various sources, particularly media in India as a lot of the victims were Indian or of Indian origin. Evidently there are a lot of India expatriats living in Nairobi.