4 October 2013: An estimated 15 of the 67 victims of the al-Shabab attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall were people of Indian origin living in the country. Four Indian citizens working in Kenya were also killed.
BBC Hindi's Nitin Srivastava spoke to Gurdayal Singh - a Kenyan Indian who lost his wife and grandson on that fateful day.
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Some 67 people were killed and many injured after al-Shabab militants attacked the Westgate centre in Kenya on 21 September. A number of those killed were people of South Asian origin. The BBC Hindi's Nitin Srivastava reports from Nairobi.
A packed weekend for Nehal Vekaria had begun with a cooking competition at the upscale Westgate shopping centre in a posh part of Nairobi, favoured by the expatriates.
On Sunday, 22 September, the 16-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants planned to go to her school for a ceremony in which she was to be chosen as the deputy head girl.
When the militants stormed into the mall on Saturday and began firing indiscriminately, Nehal called up her father and told him that she, along with a friend, were hiding on the rooftop.
That was her last call...... more