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As gang spread untold terror at Westgate Mall, scribe lived in total oblivion

Students who attended a ten-day meditation course in Karen, Nairobi and only came to know of the Westgate Mall attack one week after it happened.  [PHOTO: LYDIA LIMBE/STANDARD]

By LYDIA LIMBE

KENYA: With the massive media coverage of the terror attacks at the Westgate Mall, it would be unbelievable to hear that anyone within Nairobi could have only received the news a week after the event.

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