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How we survived terror at Nairobi's Westgate mall

What it was like at the Westgate mall, from two of those who survived

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

 Nairobi

Kenya is one of those places where everybody knows everybody — and each one of us seems to have friends or relatives caught up in the Westgate shopping mall terrorist attack. My friends Simon and Amanda Belcher were on their way to lunch at the mall before catching a film at the cinema.

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