Nairobi/Lucknow: An Uttar Pradesh boy is among the dead in the terror attack at a shopping mall in Kenyan capital Nairobi, his family members said Tuesday.
Pramanshu Jain, 8, hails from Lalitpur in the Bundekhand area, his uncle Harsh Kumar Jain said.
Pramanshu's father Manoj Kumar Jain works for the Bank of Baroda, and was shifted to Indore on a transfer a few years back. The family says that he was later promoted as branch manager to Nairobi two months back.
Pramanshu had gone to the Westgate Mall on Saturday with his mother, sister and a woman bank employee.
The family said they were informed that minutes after they went inside the Westgate Mall, terrorists stormed the mall and started lobbing hand grenades and firing indiscriminately.
Pramanshu was killed on the spot, his mother Mukta and sister Poorvi, 13, were hit by bullets in their leg and hands, and are recovering at a Nairobi medical facility.
The woman bank employee accompanying the Jain family is dead and their driver is still missing, the family members said.
Pramanshu Jain, 8, hails from Lalitpur in the Bundekhand area, his uncle Harsh Kumar Jain said.
Pramanshu's father Manoj Kumar Jain works for the Bank of Baroda, and was shifted to Indore on a transfer a few years back. The family says that he was later promoted as branch manager to Nairobi two months back.
The family said they were informed that minutes after they went inside the Westgate Mall, terrorists stormed the mall and started lobbing hand grenades and firing indiscriminately.
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The woman bank employee accompanying the Jain family is dead and their driver is still missing, the family members said.
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