Militant spares four-year-old after the boy shames him
A four-year-old British boy survived the bloody Kenyan shopping mall
attack after standing up to a terrorist gunman and telling him: “You’re a
very bad man.”
Elliott Prior, from Windsor in southeast England, showed great courage
when men with AK47s stormed the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi on
Saturday, the Sun reports.
He was protecting his mother Amber, who had been shot in the leg. As a
gunman approached him, his mother and his six-year-old sister Amelie, he
shouted: “You’re a bad man, let us leave.”
Surprisingly, the gunman appeared to take pity on the family. After going
so far as to give Elliott and Amelie candy bars, he allowed them to
escape with their mother, saying, according to the Sun: “Please forgive me, we are not monsters.”
Amber, a 35-year-old film producer, also rescued two other children from
the mall, including a wounded 12-year-old boy whose mother had been
murdered, and pushed them outside in a shopping trolley. Dramatic photos
of the distraught-looking Amber, Elliott and Amelie coming out of the
mall were then flashed around the world.
Source: Time Magazine
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