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Survivor of Nairobi mall shooting speaks of impact on family four years on

A man carries bananas past the Westgate Shopping Centre on September 17, 2014 in Nairobi. On September 21, 2013 Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels stormed Nairobi’s Westgate mall, killing at least 67 people in a four-day siege. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images)

By: Lauren Codling

by LAUREN CODLING A SURVIVOR of the Westgate Mall shootings in Nairobi has said she and her children are still affected by the attack, four years after it happened. Kamal Kaur, a radio presenter at Kenyan radio station East FM, who was part of a team hosting a cooking competition for children at the time of the attack, told Eastern Eye that she and her children Armaan and Sapna needed to know the source of any loud sound before they accepted it and got on with whatever they were doing. FAMILY: (left to right) Armaan, Sapnaand Kamal Kaur “Whether it’s…

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