Kenyan Mall Shootings: Faces of Victims Were Burnt, Hands Cut Off To Prevent Identification + Adults Climbed Over Kids to Escape

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Militants who stormed the Kenyan shopping mall reportedly burnt victims' faces and cut off their hands in an attempt to conceal their identities before piling the bodies up by the main door to slow the progress of the rescue teams.

One security officer said the mall had been turned into ‘an abattoir’ within half an hour as gunmen went on the rampage.

As shocking details emerged of the horrors committed inside the Westgate shopping centre, it was also reported that an injured woman had been sexually abused at gunpoint in front of young hostages.

It is believed that she has been shot in the shoulder, while her child has been killed. Details of the incident were posted hundreds of times on Facebook.

The woman is said to have been able to speak several times with her husband, who is outside the shopping centre – but last night he had heard nothing from her for several hours.

Another witness who was hosting a cookery competition in the Kenyan mall attacked by terrorists claimed today that adults acted like ‘animals’ during the attack by climbing on top of children to escape.

Kamal Kaur - who was hosting the competition for 33 children at the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi on Saturday - said her own daughter and son, aged 12 and eight, were injured in the attack.

The radio presenter added that somebody carried away her daughter after the girl’s leg was badly injured - and she could only say a prayer that she would be safe.

Mrs Kaur told BBC News in an emotional interview: ‘I had about 30 to 33 kids with me. The shooting was going on. We were in the corner. I was telling everybody "bend down".

‘The adults were worst - they were animals, they were climbing on top of the kids to jump over the walls. I was trying to say “there are little children over there” - they were stepping on the children.

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