{"id":1398,"date":"2013-09-27T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2013-09-27T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:33:20","slug":"american-family-rescued-by-muslim-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/27\/american-family-rescued-by-muslim-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"American family rescued by Muslim hero"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Revealed: American family rescued by Muslim hero of attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall<\/h1>\n

Exclusive: American family the Waltons have told how they were rescued from the siege at Nairobi’s Westgate mall by a man who has been hailed a hero. Aislinn Laing reports.<\/h2>\n
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By\u00a0Aislinn Laing<\/a>,\u00a0Nairobi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Faced with a long afternoon trapped in the house with her five children last Saturday, Katherine Walton decided on a quick excursion \u2013 a trip to Nairobi’s popular Westgate Mall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On arriving together, her two teenage boys briefly went ahead with Mrs Walton following with her three daughters including four-year-old Portia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Four hours later, the family lay pinned to the ground opposite the supermarket where they did their weekly shop as gunmen hurled grenades and sprayed bullets just yards from them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We were just going to meet my two older boys in the supermarket when we heard an explosion,” said Mrs Walton, a 38-year-old IT worker from North Carolina who moved to\u00a0Kenya<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with her husband Philip and their children two years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I grabbed the girls and started running. A woman pulled us behind a promotional table opposite. I could see the bullets hitting above the shops and hear the screaming all around us.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n