A shop worker who survived the Kenya mall terror attack says she was ducking bullets when she locked eyes with a female shooter who might have been notorious UK fugitive Samantha Lewthwaite — known as the “White Widow.”
“She stopped and aimed at me, and then opened fire,” the worker, who gave her name only as Caroline, said as she recounted how she hid under a mall kiosk cart as the armed woman opened fire on her from a balcony one floor above her during the deadly siege at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall.
“She was high up, but not far from me, close enough that I saw her looking along the floor where I was,” Caroline told London’s Telegraph.
“All of the bullets did not hit me; I don’t know how that happened.
“She stopped firing at me for a moment and looked away, and I jumped up and ran around a corner, and that’s how I escaped.”
The account comes as officials try to determine whether Lewthwaite, 29, the widow of London subway suicide bomber Germain Lindsay, was involved in the Kenya rampage, which killed at least 61 people.