The two French citizens who were among the scores of people killed in Saturday's militant attack on a Nairobi shopping mall were a mother and daughter who were "executed" in the parking lot, French officials said Sunday, reports FRANCE 24.
"Two of our compatriots were cowardly attacked and executed in the parking lot of the shopping centre," said Helene Conway-Mouret, the minister in charge of French citizens living abroad.
Conway-Mouret said there were a total of seven French nationals in the Westgate complex when al Shabaab militants stormed the centre on Saturday.
Five of them managed to flee. One suffered bullet injuries and had been admitted to hospital but was not "in danger", she told BFM-TV.
"They are in shock," she said, referring to those who escaped.
The minister said the French embassy in the Kenyan capital had set up a crisis cell and had asked the nearly 1,500 registered French nationals to remain "vigilant."
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