British boy, 4, spared after telling armed militant ‘You’re a bad man’

More harrowing accounts of the Nairobi terror attack have emerged from British survivors who managed to escape the bloodshed.

A four-year-old boy was spared by one of the armed militants after telling him “You’re a bad man”, according to reports.

The youngster, his six-year-old sister and their mother Amber Prior, from Windsor, Berkshire, were in a supermarket at the Westgate shopping centre when it was stormed by jihadists.

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The child’s uncle Alex Coutts told a tabloid newspaper they had asked if any children were alive in the shop, at which his mother, who had been shot in the leg, stood up and said yes.

The boy, who is believed to have been trying to protect her, is said to have shouted at one man: “You’re a bad man, let us leave.”

The gunman reportedly gave the children Mars bars and asked for forgiveness after the show of bravery.

Another Briton, Lynsey Khatau, fled with her four-year-old son Caiz and husband Max as bullets flew around them.

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The 23-year-old, who divides her time between Pontllanfraith in South Wales and the Kenyan capital, said she realised something was wrong when the lights went off.

“The first thing that happened was that a grenade went off under a car or something outside – that was the first thing that we heard,” she told BBC Wales.

“Then there was shooting, maybe 20 rounds, in less than a minute. We came out – I just ran, we just ran out.

“When we came out of the supermarket they were already inside the mall and we just ran. They were already shooting inside.

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“It was really horrific. My son is really traumatised. We were going to die – that was the only thing I was thinking, we’re going to die.”

The al-Shabaab militants used assault rifles and grenades in the attack, and were said to have targeted non-Muslims. Early survivor reports said those who could recite a verse from the Koran or to name the Prophet Mohammed’s mother, Aminah were spared.

But others said the shooting was indiscriminate and at least two Muslims were among the six Britons killed – Jennah Bawa, eight, who was killed with her Kenyan-born mother Zahira.