Anne Dechauffour and mother Corinne, 54, shot as militants stormed mall
At least 61 civilians, six security officers and five terrorists killed in siege
A London-based French model who acted in a film about a hostage crisis was gunned down with her mother as they parked up outside the Kenyan mall, it emerged today.
Anne Dechauffour, 27, and her mother Corinne, 54, were shot in their car as Islamic militants stormed the shopping centre in Nairobi.
Their deaths are among a number of heartbreaking stories that are emerging from the terror atrocity that has seen at least 61 innocent shoppers killed since it began on Saturday.
According to reports, Anne had been visiting her mother, an artist who had remarried and settled in Kenya ten years ago.
Her father, Michel, is believed to run a luxury hotel, the Rock Leopard Lodge, in Kenya's Meru National Park.
Anne had appeared in a short film about a hostage-taking before her death, it was reported in The Times.
She was a student in cinema and linguistic sciences and was working part-time as a model.
Francois Hoffman, director of the Cours Florent drama school, told Le Parisien: 'She had potential. She had a fragility that felt like an extension of childhood.'
The murder of the two women, who were from Nice on the French Riviera, has caused outrage in France.
The Paris based anti-terrorism bureau opened an investigation into 'murder and attempted murder in association with a terrorist organisation'.
Corinne's brother, Gabriel, was reported to have arrived in Nairobi accompanied by representatives of the French Foreign Ministry on Sunday.
The two women were among at least 61 civilians killed when Al Shabaab gunmen stormed the Westgate shopping centre and took a number of hostages during a five-day siege that Kenyan officials claimed had finally ended yesterday.
The number of victims, gunmen and hostages has been unclear throughout the crisis as has the progress of the operation to secure the mall.
Kenya's President tonight announced that his country had 'ashamed and defeated' its attackers, but even as he spoke shots were heard inside the mall.
Gunshots also rang out this morning, but government spokesman Manoah Esipisu said they came from Kenyan forces going room to room, firing protectively before entering unknown territory.
The girl, 13, who lived by playing dead next to her father's body
A 13-year-old girl survived the mall massacre by pretending to be dead next to her father's corpse.
Dr Juan Jesus Ortiz-Iruri had just pulled up in a basement car park under the shopping centre when he was shot in the chest.
His daughter, Juanita Ortiz, sustained gunshot wounds to her leg and hand, but managed to evade a possible follow-up hit by lying still for up to four hours.
Her brother Luis, who flew to Kenya from Australia, told The Times: 'For a couple of hours, maybe four, she sat in the car until someone came and got her and carried her into an ambulance.
'They left my father because he was dead.'
Dr Ortiz-Iruri had recently been offered a job as a senior technical adviser in the Centre of Maternal and Newborn Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
The family was due to leave Kenya today and Juanita was reportedly excited about moving to England.
'Look after my baby daughter': Hostage's chilling last text to nephew
A father taken hostage at the mall sent a chilling final text to his nephew asking him to look after his one-year-old daughter.
Lorry driver Thomas Otieno, 29, phoned his parents on Saturday to say his life was in danger.
The next the family heard was a text he sent to Michael Wasonga two days later saying: 'Pray for me, that I will come out alive and meet another day.'
In another message he listed his estate, including 30,000 Kenyan shillings (£214) in his bank account, a motorbike and two cows.
A final text asked Mr Wasonga to care for this daughter.
Mr Wasonga, 30, told The Times: 'After that, I knew he wasn't going to come out.'
The Ghanaian poet who was jailed for alleged coup plot
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet, professor and former ambassador to Brazil, Cuba and the United Nations.
Ghana's ministry of information said Awoonor's son was injured and is responding to treatment.
Awoonor's work drew its inspiration from the traditions of his native Ewe tribe.
Ghana's poetry foundation said on its website that Awoonor went into exile after Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was driven out in a coup in 1966.
He studied at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his dissertation was published in 1975.
He returned to Ghana and was later jailed for his alleged involvement in a coup plot.
His time in prison was recounted in The House by the Sea (1978), the foundation said.
BRITAIN
British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said six British deaths occurred and the number could rise.
They include architect Ross Langdon (pictured, right, with his Dutch-born pregnant girlfriend, Elif Yavuz, who was also killed) and Zahira Bawa and her eight-year-old daughter Jenah, from Leamington Spa in central England, a relative told Britain's Press Association news agency.
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CANADA
Annemarie Desloges, a border services liaison officer in Canada's High Commission to Kenya, 'was one of our bright young lights, and hers was a career brimming with promise,' said Tim Edwards, president of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers.
She was a 29-year-old from a 'foreign service family' and had accompanied her parents on overseas postings before deciding to follow in their footsteps in 2006.
Vancouver businessman Naguib Damji also died in the attack, a daughter and niece confirmed to various media.
Two sisters from Toronto, 17-year-old Fardosa Abdi and 16-year-old Dheeman Abdi, were seriously injured.
Their aunt Hodan Hassan said from her home in Minnesota that Fardosa was in critical condition with severe leg injuries.
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CHINA
A 38-year-old Chinese woman with the surname Zhou who worked in the real estate industry was killed, state media said. Her son was injured in the attack and was in stable condition in a hospital, according to the Chinese Embassy in Kenya.
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FRANCE
Two French victims of the Nairobi terrorists were named last night as Corinne Dechauffour, 54 and her daughter Anne who was 27.
The murder of the two women who were from Nice on the French Riviera caused outrage in the southern city and in the rest of France.
The victims were gunned down in the car park of the Westgate Mall just after they had parked their car.
GHANA
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet, professor and former ambassador to Brazil, Cuba and the United Nations. Ghana's ministry of information said Awoonor's son was injured and is responding to treatment.
Awoonor's work drew its inspiration from the traditions of his native Ewe tribe. Ghana's poetry foundation said on its website that Awoonor went into exile after Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was driven out in a coup in 1966.
He studied at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his dissertation was published in 1975. He returned to Ghana and was later jailed for alleged involvement coup plot. His time in prison was recounted in The House by the Sea (1978), the foundation said.
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INDIA
Three Indians were killed in the attack, including an 8-year-old boy, Paramshu Jain, whose father is manager of a Nairobi branch of an Indian bank. The child's mother, Mukta Jain, is among four Indians who were injured.
President Uhuru Kenyatta's nephew and nephew's fiancee were also among the dead.
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THE NETHERLANDS
Elif Yavuz was a senior vaccines researcher for the Clinton Health Access Initiative, according to a statement from the Clinton family. 'Elif was brilliant, dedicated, and deeply admired by her colleagues, who will miss her terribly,' the Clintons said.
She had completed her dissertation research on malaria in eastern Africa and graduated this year from Harvard University's Department of Global Health and Population, the school said.
Yavuz, 33, was Langdon's partner and was expecting their first child in early October.
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NEW ZEALAND
Andrew McLaren, 34, a New Zealander who managed a factory in Kenya for the avocado oil company Olivado, was wounded in the attack, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed. He was hospitalized in stable condition.
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PERU
Juan Ortiz-Iruri was a retired tropical disease specialist for UNICEF who had lived for 25 years in Africa, according to UNICEF and Peruvian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alejandro Neyra.
His son, Ricardo Ortiz, told Radio RPP that Ortiz-Iruri entered the mall accompanied by his daughter, a 13-year-old born in the U.S. She suffered a hand injury, but is out of danger.
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SOUTH AFRICA
One South African citizen was killed, according to the country's International Relations Department.
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SOUTH KOREA
South Korea's Foreign Ministry said one South Korean woman was among the dead. It provided no further details.
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SWITZERLAND
One Swiss citizen was injured, but the embassy would not provide further the victim's name.
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UNITED STATES
Five American citizens were injured, U.S. officials said.
At least 61 civilians, six security officers and five terrorists killed in siege
A London-based French model who acted in a film about a hostage crisis was gunned down with her mother as they parked up outside the Kenyan mall, it emerged today.
Anne Dechauffour, 27, and her mother Corinne, 54, were shot in their car as Islamic militants stormed the shopping centre in Nairobi.
Their deaths are among a number of heartbreaking stories that are emerging from the terror atrocity that has seen at least 61 innocent shoppers killed since it began on Saturday.
Cut down in her prime: London-based French model
Anne Dechauffour who was shot dead by Islamic militants with her mother
as they parked outside the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi
Cruel irony: Anne had appeared in a short film about a hostage crisis before her death
Her father, Michel, is believed to run a luxury hotel, the Rock Leopard Lodge, in Kenya's Meru National Park.
Anne had appeared in a short film about a hostage-taking before her death, it was reported in The Times.
She was a student in cinema and linguistic sciences and was working part-time as a model.
Francois Hoffman, director of the Cours Florent drama school, told Le Parisien: 'She had potential. She had a fragility that felt like an extension of childhood.'
The murder of the two women, who were from Nice on the French Riviera, has caused outrage in France.
Operation: Kenyan soldiers move in formation, clearing the top floor balcony and interior of the Nairobi mall
Out in force: Kenyan soldiers comb the rooftop of the Westgate mall on the fourth day of the siege
Evasive action: Kenyan soldiers and policemen
crouch down behind a wall near the car park as they prepare for the next
stage of the assault on the mall on Tuesday
Corinne's brother, Gabriel, was reported to have arrived in Nairobi accompanied by representatives of the French Foreign Ministry on Sunday.
The two women were among at least 61 civilians killed when Al Shabaab gunmen stormed the Westgate shopping centre and took a number of hostages during a five-day siege that Kenyan officials claimed had finally ended yesterday.
The number of victims, gunmen and hostages has been unclear throughout the crisis as has the progress of the operation to secure the mall.
Kenya's President tonight announced that his country had 'ashamed and defeated' its attackers, but even as he spoke shots were heard inside the mall.
Gunshots also rang out this morning, but government spokesman Manoah Esipisu said they came from Kenyan forces going room to room, firing protectively before entering unknown territory.
The girl, 13, who lived by playing dead next to her father's body
Victim: Dr Juan Ortiz-Iruri, whose daughter
Juanita survived the mall
attack by playing dead next to his body after
he was shot by terrorists
Dr Juan Jesus Ortiz-Iruri had just pulled up in a basement car park under the shopping centre when he was shot in the chest.
His daughter, Juanita Ortiz, sustained gunshot wounds to her leg and hand, but managed to evade a possible follow-up hit by lying still for up to four hours.
Her brother Luis, who flew to Kenya from Australia, told The Times: 'For a couple of hours, maybe four, she sat in the car until someone came and got her and carried her into an ambulance.
'They left my father because he was dead.'
Dr Ortiz-Iruri had recently been offered a job as a senior technical adviser in the Centre of Maternal and Newborn Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
The family was due to leave Kenya today and Juanita was reportedly excited about moving to England.
'Look after my baby daughter': Hostage's chilling last text to nephew
A father taken hostage at the mall sent a chilling final text to his nephew asking him to look after his one-year-old daughter.
Lorry driver Thomas Otieno, 29, phoned his parents on Saturday to say his life was in danger.
The next the family heard was a text he sent to Michael Wasonga two days later saying: 'Pray for me, that I will come out alive and meet another day.'
In another message he listed his estate, including 30,000 Kenyan shillings (£214) in his bank account, a motorbike and two cows.
A final text asked Mr Wasonga to care for this daughter.
Mr Wasonga, 30, told The Times: 'After that, I knew he wasn't going to come out.'
The Ghanaian poet who was jailed for alleged coup plot
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet, professor and former ambassador to Brazil, Cuba and the United Nations.
Ghana's ministry of information said Awoonor's son was injured and is responding to treatment.
Awoonor's work drew its inspiration from the traditions of his native Ewe tribe.
Ghana's poetry foundation said on its website that Awoonor went into exile after Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was driven out in a coup in 1966.
Tragic: John Henry Martey Newman, chief of staff
at the Ghanaian presidency, signs the condolences book for Ghanaian
poet Kofi Awoonor, who was killed in the mall attack
He returned to Ghana and was later jailed for his alleged involvement in a coup plot.
His time in prison was recounted in The House by the Sea (1978), the foundation said.
FROM PERU TO INDIA, THE MALL VICTIMS CAME FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE
Died together: British architect Ross Langdon,
33, and his pregnant girlfriend
Elif Yavuz who were killed in the Kenyan
shopping mall massacre
BRITAIN
British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said six British deaths occurred and the number could rise.
They include architect Ross Langdon (pictured, right, with his Dutch-born pregnant girlfriend, Elif Yavuz, who was also killed) and Zahira Bawa and her eight-year-old daughter Jenah, from Leamington Spa in central England, a relative told Britain's Press Association news agency.
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CANADA
Annemarie Desloges, a border services liaison officer in Canada's High Commission to Kenya, 'was one of our bright young lights, and hers was a career brimming with promise,' said Tim Edwards, president of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers.
She was a 29-year-old from a 'foreign service family' and had accompanied her parents on overseas postings before deciding to follow in their footsteps in 2006.
Vancouver businessman Naguib Damji also died in the attack, a daughter and niece confirmed to various media.
Two sisters from Toronto, 17-year-old Fardosa Abdi and 16-year-old Dheeman Abdi, were seriously injured.
Their aunt Hodan Hassan said from her home in Minnesota that Fardosa was in critical condition with severe leg injuries.
---
CHINA
A 38-year-old Chinese woman with the surname Zhou who worked in the real estate industry was killed, state media said. Her son was injured in the attack and was in stable condition in a hospital, according to the Chinese Embassy in Kenya.
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FRANCE
Two French victims of the Nairobi terrorists were named last night as Corinne Dechauffour, 54 and her daughter Anne who was 27.
The murder of the two women who were from Nice on the French Riviera caused outrage in the southern city and in the rest of France.
The victims were gunned down in the car park of the Westgate Mall just after they had parked their car.
Distraught: Father Louis Bawa (left) is seen
with his nine-year-old daughter Jennah (right). She has been confirmed
as one of the British victims in the Kenya terrorist attack, in which
her mother also died
GHANA
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet, professor and former ambassador to Brazil, Cuba and the United Nations. Ghana's ministry of information said Awoonor's son was injured and is responding to treatment.
Awoonor's work drew its inspiration from the traditions of his native Ewe tribe. Ghana's poetry foundation said on its website that Awoonor went into exile after Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was driven out in a coup in 1966.
He studied at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his dissertation was published in 1975. He returned to Ghana and was later jailed for alleged involvement coup plot. His time in prison was recounted in The House by the Sea (1978), the foundation said.
---
INDIA
Three Indians were killed in the attack, including an 8-year-old boy, Paramshu Jain, whose father is manager of a Nairobi branch of an Indian bank. The child's mother, Mukta Jain, is among four Indians who were injured.
The others
confirmed dead by the Indian External Affairs Ministry are Sridhar
Natarajan, a 40-year-old from India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, and
Sudharshan B. Nagaraj, of the southern city of Bangalore.
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KENYA
Ruhila Adatia-Sood was a popular radio and TV personality in Kenya and her husband worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Nairobi. She was expecting a child.
Mitul
Shah was president of the Bidco United football team in Kenya, Football
Kenya spokesman John Kaniuki said. Shah worked for the Bidco cooking
oil company and was reportedly attending a promotional cooking event
with children at the mall. ---
KENYA
Ruhila Adatia-Sood was a popular radio and TV personality in Kenya and her husband worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Nairobi. She was expecting a child.
President Uhuru Kenyatta's nephew and nephew's fiancee were also among the dead.
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THE NETHERLANDS
Elif Yavuz was a senior vaccines researcher for the Clinton Health Access Initiative, according to a statement from the Clinton family. 'Elif was brilliant, dedicated, and deeply admired by her colleagues, who will miss her terribly,' the Clintons said.
She had completed her dissertation research on malaria in eastern Africa and graduated this year from Harvard University's Department of Global Health and Population, the school said.
Yavuz, 33, was Langdon's partner and was expecting their first child in early October.
---
NEW ZEALAND
Andrew McLaren, 34, a New Zealander who managed a factory in Kenya for the avocado oil company Olivado, was wounded in the attack, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed. He was hospitalized in stable condition.
----
PERU
Juan Ortiz-Iruri was a retired tropical disease specialist for UNICEF who had lived for 25 years in Africa, according to UNICEF and Peruvian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alejandro Neyra.
His son, Ricardo Ortiz, told Radio RPP that Ortiz-Iruri entered the mall accompanied by his daughter, a 13-year-old born in the U.S. She suffered a hand injury, but is out of danger.
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SOUTH AFRICA
One South African citizen was killed, according to the country's International Relations Department.
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SOUTH KOREA
South Korea's Foreign Ministry said one South Korean woman was among the dead. It provided no further details.
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SWITZERLAND
One Swiss citizen was injured, but the embassy would not provide further the victim's name.
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UNITED STATES
Five American citizens were injured, U.S. officials said.
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