Radio presenter, Sneha Kothari Mashru, said she survived the horrific Kenyan mall massacre by smothering herself in the blood of a teenage victim to make it look like she was dead. She said the boy died of his injuries while they hid from Al Shabaab militia who stormed the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi a few days ago. She turned his phone off to stop it from alerting their attackers and came up with the plan to smear herself in his blood and play dead.

I took a lot of his blood, (as) much (as) I could and I tried to put it on myself. I put it on my arm, a lot of the teenager’s blood, and while I was trying to put it on my hand I just realised that he had stopped breathing at that time. So I put it on my arm, as much as I could, and I covered my face with my hair, because my hair was let loose even then, just to pretend that I’m dead or probably badly injured.

She also said she would like to find out the identity of the boy.

The current death toll is 72 and is likely to climb with bodies still being uncovered in the wreckage of the mall. Another 175 people were injured, including more than 60 who remain in hospital. At least 18 foreigners were among those killed, including Mowbray resident, James Thomas.

[Source : Daily Mail]