James Verini in Nairobi – National Geographic – Published October 4, 2013
Indians in Nairobi showed extraordinary courage in Westgate mall shootings.
Excerpt: Perhaps the most horrifying scene of the day took place in an outdoor parking area in the mall’s rear, where gunmen fired, for minutes on end, into a crowd of children, most of them Indian, who had assembled for a cooking competition.
I arrived at Westgate soon after the attack began to find that the number of unarmed Indians who’d rushed to the mall to help exceeded the number of armed Kenyan police who had.
Doctors and medical students had come from nearby Aga Khan Hospital; Indian shopkeepers were using their trucks as makeshift ambulances; Indians who lived near the mall came from their homes with trays of food and water. More quickly than seemed possible, a triage center had been set up at a Jain temple across the road from the mall. Volunteers at the temple fed soldiers, police, and reporters and hosted counseling sessions for days afterward.
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