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Horrible Kenyan Mall Shooting!

People have died in the nations’ capital of Nairobi, Kenya after a major mall shooting on Saturday September 21, 2013.  The group known as Al-Shabaab took over Westgate Mall and randomly killed people.  Unfortunately, Kenyan men, women, and children have been innocently shot and killed in this awful take over of the mall.  People are still missing under the collapsed building and 67 people have been confirmed dead. A widely popular radio show host, Ruhila Adatia-Sood and her unborn child were killed in this shooting. Many viewers of the radio show, Radio Africa, are grieving for her and her family. The wait for the other victims is still so unbearable for the community. To read more on this event, please click on this link.

This situation at the Westgate Mall was horrible and dreadful.  It was a really bad moment in time.This group, Al-Shabaab is very evil and cruel. I feel really bad for all the families and friends of the people who died in this tragic shooting. The children whose parents died are never going to have the same life. It would be super difficult for me to go on in life with one parent.  Life for the people of Nairobi, Kenya now will be very difficult.

~Rachel

“Crisis in Kenya”

First in Syria, now in Kenya, there have been many tragedies recently. On September 22 in Kenya, there was a terrorist attack in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The attack went on for four days with continuous shooting and violence. There were at least 61 casualties and 71 people still missing from the rubble of the collapsing building. Also, the verified leader of the terrorist attack is named Al-Shabab, who told everybody that there were 137 people dead, which couldn’t be verified so far. There were about 175 wounded people, and currently 62 people are in the hospital.

Some of my thoughts on the subject is that I think the attacks and tragedies will keep happening  throughout the world. Personally, all of this gets me a little bit frightened. Almost everyday I think about all of the attacks on the world, 9/11, d-day, etc. The world will never know when the next attack will happen, so we have to be prepared for the worst. Just thinking about it gets me worried about my family and friends, and I can’t imagine what all of the relatives and friends of the people that died or wounded are thinking about. I hope I never have to experience the excruciating pain inside that a lot of people are feeling right now.

~Franklin