UoN students tell of brush with death at varsity hostels

A Red Cross counsellor consoles a woman who lost a loved one at the dusitD2 Hotel attack last week. [Samson Wire]

“Sometimes death just calls you,” a second-year student at the University of Nairobi said as she narrated her experience in last Tuesday’s terror attack in Nairobi.

The student, who preferred anonymity because her parents had warned her against returning to the hostels on Riverside Drive, said she was still in shock, just like dozens of fellow students at Chiromo campus.