Nairobi, Sep 26 (IANS) Members of Kenya’s Indian community are emerging as heroes of last Saturday’s terrorist attack at a Nairobi mall they frequent in large numbers, with their institutions and individuals providing critical emergency assistance at one of the darkest moments in the east African nation’s history.
Institutions owned and operated by the community, including the MP Shah Hospital, and the Aga Khan and Guru Nanak hospitals — all located less than one kilometre from the ill-fated Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, are treating scores of the injured admitted there.
With all the three premier medical facilities located in the Parklands area of the city, an area traditionally dominated by generations of Indians, the institutions battled against time to save scores of lives.
Individual Asians, including elderly women and young girl volunteers, tirelessly provided food and refreshments to journalists covering the siege and the security forces battling the attackers in one of the greatest acts of solidarity with the rest of the country in times of adversity.
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