Sarah Williamson was inches from death when terrorists stormed a Nairobi shopping centre.
With her eyes glued to a CCTV screen, Sarah Williamson’s heart was beating so hard she thought the killers prowling just metres away might be able to hear it.
In front of the Victoria University student, a tiny monitor showed six men shoulder to shoulder, machine guns aimed, making their way towards the tiny room in which she and her dad and other terrified shoppers sat huddled, hiding for their lives.
“I sat there and thought, ‘My God, they’re coming for us,’ Sarah tellsWoman’s Dayin an exclusive interview. “I was just terrified and thought I was going to die right there and then.”
Just hours earlier, Sarah, 24, her father Carl, a counter-terrorism officer, and his workmate Quinn, had gone to the high-end Westgate Mall in Nairobi to buy some curtains, use the complex’s wi-fi and get a new phone. Carl, 54, had moved to the Kenyan capital a month prior for work and he and Sarah had spent a blissful month of quality father-daughter time.
Read more about Sarah’s incredible story of survival exclusively in this week’s issue ofWoman’s Day, on sale Monday, November 4, 2013.
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