Officers who risked all in raid that left 67 dead

Security personnel and journalists hide behind a vehicle during the Westgate mall attack in Nairobi. [PHOTO: FILE]

Nairobi, Kenya: The crackle of the police radio rudely interrupted Ali Nur and his team of flying squad officers on duty on September 21 last year. Nur and his team were at a Buru Buru restaurant just settling down to a lunch before heading out for the afternoon shift.

“It was chapati and fry for me,” Nur, a father of seven with over a quarter century of experience in the police force recalls, “I had taken two bites into my food when the police radio chatter came through about a shooting.”