Survivors of the Nairobi shopping centre terrorist attack have spoken of their attempts to hide from the gunmen as they fired indiscriminately at shoppers.
The attack at the Westgate Shopping Mall, which began on Saturday, has so far killed at least 67 people.
Eleven suspects are in custody and five of the attackers - thought to be members of Somalia's al Shabaab group - have been killed, but it is still unclear whether the four-day siege has been ended.
Ben Mulwa had just got out of his car after arriving at the mall for lunch with a friend.
He described running from his vehicle into the mall to escape the shooting when he saw four men armed with automatic weapons.
"There was a security guard who came to seek safety right next to where I was," he told Sky News after returning to hospital.
"He was the first to be shot dead because I remember they shot him right through the head.
"Before I could come to terms with that, that's when I saw the second gunman pointing a gun in my direction. All I remember is I heard a very loud bang.
"I think I almost passed out for a couple of seconds. A bullet grazed over my forehead - how he was able to miss me - and he was only three or four metres away from me - is a miracle somehow."
Kenyan security forces outside the Westgate mall Mr Mulwa was also hit in the knee, and hid in a flowerbed before he was rescued.
Syed Ibrahim was shot by the gunmen and pleaded for his life, before the terrorists let him go.
He said: "I just told them to leave me alone, I've been injured, so they let me go and said we won't do anything to you because you have been shot already.
"The memory, you can't forget, you usually see it on TV or in movies. You wouldn't expect to see it in reality.
"It's not yet over, let's pray for the best."
Meanwhile, a five-year-old bravely confronted one of the gunman in the mall, telling him: "You're a very bad man, let us leave."
The Sun newspaper reported the little boy stood up to one of the terrorists after he shot his mother Amber in the leg.
The gunman then gave the boy and his six-year-old sister Mars bars, before letting them escape from the mall.
The children's father, Dan Prior, said: "I am very relieved that my family have survived and my thoughts go out to those families that are not as fortunate as my own.
"My children are traumatised and my wife is very unwell as a result of this senseless atrocity."
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