Mourners bury Nairobi mall victim, pregnant, dying while on phone to husband

Reuters 2013-09-26

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Kenyans are laying lay to rest the more than 72 people killed in the Nairobi shopping mall attack.

Among them, Ruhila Adatia-Sood, a prominent radio personality -- seven months pregnant with her first child.

Friends and family recall her last moments, when she phoned her husband to say she'd been shot.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) RAMKRIE SHANSHARMA, ISMAILI RELIGIOUS LEADER SAYING:

"There was no way to go inside and reach to her and then two, two and a half hours she was just bleeding, bleeding, bleeding, and after two and a half hours she died."

U.S., British and Israeli agencies are helping Kenya investigate the attack - staged by the al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab group in response to Kenya's military presence in neighboring Somalia.

British High Commissioner to Kenya, Chirstian Turner, urges patience.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER TO KENYA, CHRISTIAN TURNER, SAYING:

"This could take some time. We all want answers, we all wa

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