With quick recall of the incidence, a victim recounted.
"When the assault on the Westgate Mall started, Nick Handler was sitting
in a café in the Nairobi, Kenya, shopping center with his 2-year-old
daughter.
"All of a sudden I just heard a loud explosion followed by a few gun
shots and I just immediately just grabbed her and luckily it was right
by the door and we were able to sprint out of the cafe and ran across
the mall," he told ABC News by phone.
At the same time, his wife Lyndsay -- eight months pregnant -- was one floor below. Amid the chaos, the family was separated.
"That was just the most terrifying thing for her, just not being able to
be with us and having no idea what was happening," Handler said.
Father and daughter hid in a storage room with about 40 other people.
"I had been sort of tucked into the back corner with Julia trying to
basically hide in the case somebody did come in there," he said. "We
were about halfway across the room and then all of a sudden people
started rushing back in and there were some screams so we all ran back.
"Aside from that initial explosion, this was probably the most
terrifying moment, not knowing if perhaps the people who had left had
encountered some of the attackers who were then coming into the area
that we were hiding," Handler told us.
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