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| Westgate Mall, Nairobi Kenya |
It was too much for me to bear even as a Guns victim advocate. Shocking new video footage of the Westgate mall attack shows gunmen casually shooting shoppers and taking a break for prayers. New video footage of the Nairobi shopping mall massacre emerged yesterday showing the moment one of the attackers calmly gunned down a man from just a few feet away.
The footage showed the injured man, bleeding heavily, attempting to sit up and pull himself away from danger, before apparently being killed when another gunman in a black jacket approached the scene and opened fire.
The video, collated from a variety of CCTV cameras in the four-storey Westgate mall in the Kenyan capital and obtained by CNN, gave the most complete visual account so far of last month’s massacre, which resulted in the deaths of 67 people and several missing.
It appeared to show the first moments of the assault, when the gunmen opened fire and sparked panic among Saturday shoppers, and then the early hours of what became a four day siege when the attackers stalked the stores looking for victims.
HipHossip Newsnet was the first in Nigeria to begin posting the tweets where the attackers were detailing what was going on behind closed doors in the mall. Some of the tweets were also very graphic.
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| Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow at 17 |
One of the Kenyan mall massacre gunmen was a Chelsea fan: 'Norwegian' terrorist, 23, posed in Blues kit 'before he was radicalised in Somalia'
Image of Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, 23, was taken during school trip
He is pictured six years before Kenyan mall attack
The terrorist is believed to have left Somalia home in 2009
CCTV footage shows the terrifying last moments of victims in Kenya mall
Two charred bodies pulled from mall are 'highly likely' to be attackers
He is pictured six years before Kenyan mall attack
The terrorist is believed to have left Somalia home in 2009
CCTV footage shows the terrifying last moments of victims in Kenya mall
Two charred bodies pulled from mall are 'highly likely' to be attackers
Remember my interview in Toronto in the Somali community when some of the teens told me that they were being forced and lured to Somalia to become freedom fighters when they don't get jobs there?
"We go to sell drugs in Edmonton or fight in Somalia for Al-Shabab one young man told me." I have always been a member of the community that aggressively pinpointed how we could keep the Somali kids in their adopted countries they fled from and not go back home to join terrorist groups.
Listen to my FINAL audio newscast of the 4 day siege
