KENYA MALL ATTACK: "You’re A Very Bad Man" - 4yr Old Kid Confronts Gunman Who Gave Him Chocolate & Begged For Forgiveness
A four-year-old British boy caught up in the Kenya mall
massacre showed astonishing bravery by confronting a marauding gunman
who ended up begging for his forgiveness.
Elliot Prior, from Windsor, Berkshire, told one of the terrorists that he was a 'very bad man' as he protected his mother, Amber, who had been shot in the leg, and six-year-old sister Amelie.
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Incredibly, the attacker took pity on the family and bizarrely handed the children Mars bars before telling them 'Please forgive me, we are not monsters.'
His
story emerged as sporadic gunfire continued to ring out from inside the
mall early today as Kenyan security forces battled Al Qaeda-linked
terrorists into a fourth day.
Despite Kenyan
police assurances that they had taken control of the building, a
security expert with contacts inside the mall said at least 10 hostages
were still being held by a band of attackers, possibly as many as 13.
Kenya's
foreign minister Amina Mohamed said 'two or three' Americans and one
British woman were among those who attacked the Westgate shopping mall
in Nairobi.
His mother, Amber, told of her
family’s terrifying escape from Al Shabaab terrorists who butchered 62
people in the Nairobi shopping centre.
The film producer had been queuing to buy milk in Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Centre when the militants struck.
She
hid under a cold meat counter in the Nakumatt supermarket for an
hour-and-a-half with her children beneath her before terrorists finally
found them and shot her in the thigh.
Elliot's
uncle, Alex Coutts, told The Sun: 'They had a lucky escape. The
terrorists said if any of the kids were alive in the supermarket they
could leave. 'Amber made the decision to stand up and say "yes".'
'Then Elliot started arguing with them and called them bad men. He was very brave.'
After discovering the advertising producer was of French origin, the men began to plead with her and claimed that the Muslim faith ‘was not a bad one’.‘He told me I had to change my religion to Islam and said “do you forgive us? Do you forgive us?’, the mother told The Independent.
‘Naturally, I was going to say whatever they wanted and they let us go’.
Bizarrely, the terrorists handed the children Mars bars before they fled with two other children, including a 12-year-old boy who had at first refused to leave his dead mother.
The fate of 20 others who had taken refuge under the meat counter is unknown.
Bizarrely, the terrorists handed the children Mars bars before they fled with two other children, including a 12-year-old boy who had at first refused to leave his dead mother.
The fate of 20 others who had taken refuge under the meat counter is unknown.
The
family’s escape is particularly astonishing in light of the
indiscriminate slaughter of men, women and children throughout the mall
after Al Shabaab launched their assault on Saturday.
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