Source: allafrica.com

Police respond to the shooting at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which reportedly left dozens dead and injured.

Nairobi — As victims and eyewitnesses of last week’s Westgate mall siege recount the terrifying, bloody ordeal, Muslim clerics and scholars denounced al-Shabaab’s attack, saying the rampage goes against the tenets of Islam and the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

“Until Saturday, I did not know terrorists would stoop so low to want to kill a disabled woman in a wheelchair like me,” said 38-year-old Anisa Chopra, shaking her head as she pointed to her heavily bandaged left knee.

Chopra was at the Westgate mall on September 21st when al-Shabaab gunmen stormed the shopping centre and began opening fire indiscriminately.

“My driver, John, was the one who was wheeling me to the mall, but he ran for his dear life when the terrorists started spraying people with bullets,” she recalled. “Being disabled, I was vulnerable and helpless.”

Then the gunmen spotted her:

As Chopra tried to wheel herself away to safety, one of the militants shot at her twice. One of the bullets shattered her knee. “The first bullet hit my wheelchair’s metal frame, then the second hit my knee… continue reading at allafrica.com