In one of many funerals held Thursday, over two thousand mourners turned out to pay their final respects to Ruhila Adatia, 31, a popular television and radio personality who was pregnant with her first child, in a joint ceremony also held for Shairoz Dossa, 44, a mother of three.
Both came from Kenya’s Ismaili Muslim community.
Fellow radio presenter Kamal Kaur was with Adatia at a children’s cooking contest on the mall’s rooftop carpark when the attackers struck, recounting the horror as the insurgents raked the screaming crowds with bullets and hurled grenades.
“I had around 30 to 35 kids with me… and when the blast went off I tried to protect them by ordering them to get down and lie on the floor… After the blast, and screaming from the kids, the shots started coming in,” Kaur told The Standard.
Kaur, who huddled against a wall as she tried to stem the pumping blood from the neck of a little boy, said she did not see how Adatia died.
But she recalled her final words, just minutes before the carnage began.
“She was telling me how she had bought something for ‘my little papa’ (her unborn baby), and I was telling her to stop buying too many things because we will have nothing else to give as a gift when it finally comes,” Kaur added. “Those were the last words I said to her.”
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