But she added: ‘I saw a lot of children and elderly people being shot dead. I don't understand why you would shoot a five-year-old child.
They were firing at random at anyone who tried to escape.'
One Indian mother, Kamal Kaur, who had been shopping with her family, posted a string of shocking tweets about her ordeal when she got home.
‘I just washed my hair and wailed like a child. Blood in my hair. Not mine. That little boy who died right next to me… My son almost had his head blown off. Missed by an inch. Hit wall. Bounced and killed the little boy next to him.'
Kenyan IT engineer Charles Karani, 41, said: ‘I hid under a car with my daughters, and I saw the men line up maybe 40 people and ask them who was Muslim, and if they were, to prove it by saying the name of the Prophet's mother. Those who got it wrong were shot. There was blood everywhere.
‘Two ladies under the car with me had gunshot wounds on their legs. Other people for sure are dead. I saw four people lying, not moving.
‘A grenade was thrown and it rolled near us. My daughter said, “Papa, there's a grenade” – but thank God it didn't go off and I kicked it away.'
