新华网8月24日电 据英国《太阳报》报道,一位英国的四岁小男孩在肯尼亚购物中心勇敢面对恐怖分子,并对他说:“你是个大坏蛋。”他有幸逃过一劫。
令人惊奇的是,恐怖分子放过了勇敢的艾略特·普莱尔,还给了他几根玛氏巧克力棒。
内罗毕购物中心的恐怖袭击导致62人死亡,170人受伤,63人失踪。死者中有6名英国人。
肯尼亚士兵表示他们正在“清扫”西式的Westgate购物中心,双方对峙已经有三天了,目前处于最后的阶段,但仍有一些恐怖分子藏匿在大楼内。
当手持AK47的武装分子向非穆斯林人员疯狂扫射时,温莎博克斯的艾略特表现出了令人震撼的勇气。
他正在保护腿部受伤的母亲艾美柏。
当一名武装分子靠近时,艾略特冲着他大喊:“你这个大坏蛋,放我们走!”
歹徒对艾略特和他姐姐阿梅利亚心生怜悯,放过了他们。在给他俩几根士力架之后,让他们带着妈妈赶紧逃离,还说:“请原谅我,我们不是怪物。”
35岁的电影制片人艾美柏还找到另外两个幸存的小孩,其中包括一个12岁男孩,他的母亲被歹徒打死了。艾美柏用超市里的购物车将几个孩子从购物中心推了出来。
艾略特身穿一件“我爱纽约”T恤衫,与妈妈和姐姐从购物中心走出,这张极富戏剧性的照片瞬间在世界各地传播。还有一张照片显示,武装人员冲上去包围购物中心时,神情恍惚的姐姐阿梅利亚站在一具尸体旁不知所措。
艾略特一家人住在内罗毕,那天一家人例行去超市购物。
在超市内,艾美柏把孩子和购物车安顿在收银台旁边,然后转身到超市里去拿红酒,就一会儿的功夫,一群基地组织附属的索马里青年党恐怖分子就冲了进来并开始疯狂扫射。
在四散逃跑的购物者中,艾美柏跑到孩子身边。
艾略特的叔叔,42岁的亚历克斯说:“他们能逃出来,真的很幸运。恐怖分子说超市内如果还有孩子存活他们就能离开。艾美柏决定直面恐怖分子,回答道 是 。然后艾略特就开始与恐怖分子争吵,并朝他们大喊坏蛋。恐怖分子还给孩子们一些巧克力棒。”
艾美柏透露说,恐怖分子只想杀死肯尼亚人和美国人。她说:“恐怖分子让我改信伊斯兰教,还说 你能原谅我们吗? ”
译者:张艺
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You re a bad man
Brit boy, 4, to terrorist
Brave ... massacre survivor Elliott Prior, 4
A FOUR-year-old British boy survived the Kenyan shopping mall slaughter after standing up to a terrorist gunman and telling him: “You re a very bad man.”
Amazingly, the fiend spared brave Elliott Prior and even gave him Mars bars.
Last night the grim toll in Nairobi was 62 dead, including six Brits, 170 injured and 63 missing.
Kenyan soldiers said they were “clearing” the western-style Westgate mall and the three-day siege was in its final stages. But some terrorists still remained inside.
Elliott, of Windsor, Berks, showed astonishing courage when men armed with AK47s stormed the mall on Saturday firing at non-Muslims.
He was protecting his mum Amber, who had been shot in the leg.
Safe ... wounded Amber leads Amelie and Elliott from mall
As a gunman approached he shouted: “You re a bad man, let us leave.” The brute took pity on Elliott and his sister Amelie, six. And after giving them the choc bars he let them escape with their mum, saying: “Please forgive me, we are not monsters.”
Film producer Amber, 35, also scooped up two other kids, including a wounded 12-year-old boy whose mother had been murdered, and pushed them outside in a shopping trolley.
Dramatic photos of Elliott — in an “I Love NY” T-shirt — coming out of the mall with Amelie and Amber were flashed around the world. Distraught Amelie was also snapped standing over a dead body as armed cops laid siege to the centre.
The family, who live in Nairobi, had been on a routine shop in a supermarket.
Horror ... Amelie and body
Amber had briefly left her children with her trolley by the till and dashed off to get a bottle of wine when the killers, from al-Qaeda affiliated group al-Shabaab, burst in and started shooting.
She ran back through fleeing shoppers to reach her kids.
Elliott s uncle Alex Coutts, 42, said: “They had a lucky escape.
“The terrorists said if any kids were alive in the supermarket they could leave. Amber made a decision to stand up and say, Yes .
“Then Elliott argued with them and called them bad men. He was very brave.
“The terrorists even gave the kids Mars bars.”
Amber revealed one said they only want to kill Kenyans and Americans.
She added: “He told me I had to change my religion to Islam and said, Do you forgive us? ”