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Thursday, October 10, 2013

UC Berkeley alumna recalls her surreal escape from death

UC Berkeley alumna Elaine Dang  survived the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya.
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UC Berkeley alumna Elaine Dang survived the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya.

Caught in the middle of a siege that would later become Kenya’s deadliest terrorist attack since 1998, Elaine Dang found herself huddling under a counter, trying to make herself invisible to the gunmen attacking Nairobi’s upscale Westgate Mall. Read More…

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Monday, September 23, 2013
Crowd fleeing sounds of gunfire near Westgate shopping mall.

Nairobi terrorist attack shakes campus’s Kenyan students

The images of the violence halfway across the world have shocked many, but it hits closer to home for some UC Berkeley students who hail from Nairobi. Read More…

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