14 DAY TRIAL // A four-year-old boy from the UK has saved his own life and that of his family by confronting his attackers during the mall siege in Kenya.
Elliott Prior, of Windsor, in Berkshire, wanted to be allowed to leave with his family. By approaching one of the armed members of the Islamist formation attacking Westgate mall, he got to one of them.
"You're a bad man, let us leave," he said.
According to the Daily Record, the man he talked to gave him and his sister Mars candy bars then apologized.
"Please forgive me; we are not monsters," the terror suspect has responded.
Elliott's uncle, Alex Coutts, described that the attackers decided to allow children in the mall to leave.
He tells the Independent that they specifically asked for kids to get out of the mall. Elliott's mom, Amber, stood up and told them that her two children were there.
“They had a lucky escape… the terrorists said that if any kids were alive in the supermarket they could leave. Amber made a decision to stand up and say yes,” Coutts explains.
The young boy spoke up after being permitted to get out and criticized the men holding them hostage.
“Elliot argued with them and called them bad men. He was very brave,” his uncle adds.
Due to Elliott's intervention, Amber and his six-year-old sister were also permitted to exit the mall. 35-year-old Amber took two other children with her on her way out. She has been shot in the leg but she has been treated.
The suspects told her that they only intended to kill Kenyans and Americans, and Britons were not in their plans. They asked her to convert to Islam, but set her free.
One of children she rescued was a 12-year-old boy whose mother was dead. He has also suffered gunshot wounds but he is now stable.