美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-10-01

 I am Anderson K. Welcome to the *.How did the Kenya terror attack unfold hour by hour inside a luxury shopping mall? *  father has described hiding from the terrorists with his haunted daughter and  has received a word from Tyler, gets some of the first of most dramatic pictures of the carnage, which was fluid and he was  nearby. Let’s talk to him. Let's get started.

 

The deadly standoff continues and it's now been four days since people shopping, eating and spending times with their families in an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya was interrupted by violence nothing short of nightmare.  The situation right now is still unresolved. Conflicting reports about who is actually in control of the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi and how many hostages remain alive inside. Kenya official have reportedly said all the hostages have been released, but according to Red Cross 65 people are still unaccounted for tonight. The Red Cross has also advice the death toll¹ down to 62. Apparently² some victims were miscounted. The details of the story have been and remained extremely fluid with each day in every hour new details are surfacing its might. We do have a much clear picture of how the attack unfolded over the weekend. 

 

Saturday afternoon, shocks and explosions are heard inside the busy upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi Kenya. 

 

Westgate mall is reportedly been held under siege. Shoppers are held by gunmen and unconfirmed reports indicated that several people had been shot dead.

 

Eye witnesses say an unknown number of gunmen burst into the mall from multiple entrances firing shots at ceiling and tossing grenades.

 

At first, panic shoppers assumed it was a rubbery, but then eye witnesses say the gunmen tell all Muslims in the building to leave according to some reports, asking them the name of the profit Mohammad's mother to prove their faith before they exit, which would leave the non Muslims as hostages and targets.  The gunmen move from store to store shooting people randomly³. Hundreds of terrified shoppers tried to flee or attempt to hide inside stores and stair well. Many escape, however they can.

 

Kenya authorities stormed the mall and pursued the gunmen who have secured themselves somewhere inside the huge complex with unknown number of hostages. The standoff has begun. Hall ways and quarters turn into battlegrounds with desperate shoppers caught in amidst of it. 30-year old M from North Carolina are trying to run after she heard shooting, but ended up hiding for four terrifying hours before she finally escaped.

 

"We stood up and we started to turn and it was just second and we heard machine guns and then we started to run and there's the second explosion which occurs on the ground."

 

As the Kenya military take control of the mall of the building, survivors⁴ begin trickling⁵ out. At late Saturday afternoon, the terrorist group Al-Shabab comes forward claiming responsibility for the attack in a series of tweets, also indicating one or more the gunmen may be American. Sunday and the siege continues. By midday, the Kenya government announces 59 are dead, more than 175 wounded. Among them is 26-year-old American Allen D, who spoke⁶ by phone from the hospital. 

 

"I'm OK and very grateful to be alive."

 

The gunmen are still inside the mall still holding hostages. By Monday, day three of the standoff, the Kenya government says their forces have taken control of most of the building.

 

1 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

2 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

3 randomly   

adv.随便地，未加计划地

参考例句：

• Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内，分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
• Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句

4 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

5 trickling   

n.油画底色含油太多而成泡沫状突起v.滴( trickle的现在分词 )；淌；使)慢慢走；缓慢移动

参考例句：

• Tears were trickling down her cheeks. 眼泪顺着她的面颊流了下来。
• The engine was trickling oil. 发动机在滴油。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。