Ahmedabad:
At least three people from Gujarat's Saurashtra region were killed in the terror attack at a mall in the Kenyan capital, an official said today.
"Three people from the Saurashtra region were killed in the terror strike in Kenya," Rajkot Mayor Raxaben Boliya told IANS.
She said that Malti and Jyoti Vaya, who are sisters-in-law, from Rajkot were killed when heavily armed terrorists stormed Westgate mall in Nairobi on Saturday.
"We are deeply saddened...," she said.
Boliya also said that 16-year-old Neha, granddaughter of N Mashroo, a native of Jamnagar was also killed in the terror strike.
40-year-old Sridhar Natarajan from Tamil Nadu, and eight-year-old Paramshu Jain, the son of a Bank of Baroda's Nairobi branch manager, were initially identified as those who were killed. Another Indian, Sudharshan B Nagaraj from Bangalore, was today identified as among the dead.
Six Indians, including three from Gujarat, are now among the people killed in the terror siege that dragged into the fourth day today.