Soon after his mother had been shot on the thigh during the Westgate
mall terror incident, Elliot Prior, a four-year-old British boy showed
astonishing bravery by confronting the marauding gunman who ended up
begging for his forgiveness.
Elliot Prior, from Windsor, Berkshire, told one of the terrorists
that he was a 'very bad man' as he protected his mother, Amber, who had
been shot in the leg, and six-year-old sister Amelie.
Incredibly, the attacker took pity on the family and bizarrely handed
the children Mars bars before telling them: 'Please forgive me, we are
not monsters.'
All this was going on as gunfire rent the air but the family stayed strong hoping for the best.
His mother (Amber, a film producer) told of how she was on the queue
to buy milk when the terrorists struck, causing mayhem within the mall.
In a bid to stay safe, she and her children hid under a cold meat
counter in the Nakumatt supermarket for an hour-and-a-half, upon until
the terrorists found them and shot her on the leg.
Elliot's uncle, Alex Coutts, told The Sun: 'They had a lucky escape.
The terrorists said if any of the kids were alive in the supermarket
they could leave.
'Amber made the decision to stand up and say "yes".'
'Then Elliot started arguing with them and called them bad men. He was very brave.'
After discovering the advertising producer was of French origin, the
men began to plead with her and claimed that the Muslim faith ‘was not a
bad one’.
‘He told me I had to change my religion to Islam and said “do you
forgive us? Do you forgive us?’ the mother told The Independent.
‘Naturally, I was going to say whatever they wanted and they let us go’.
She added.
Bizarrely, the terrorists handed the children Mars bars before they
fled with two other children, including a 12-year-old boy who had at
first refused to leave his dead mother.
The fate of 20 others who had taken refuge under the meat counter is
unknown, but the family’s lucky escape, as well as Elliot's bravery was
particularly amazing
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