Elliot Prior, a four-year-old from Windsor in Berkshire, escaped from the Nairobi Westgate situation by telling a gunman that he was a “very bad man.”
Prior approached the man while with his mother Amber–who had been shot in the leg–and his sister Elliott.
Prior came out of hiding and told one of the gunman that he was a “very bad man,” reported the Daily Independent.
“In a bizarre twist, the gunman took pity on the family and handed the children Mars bars before telling them: ‘Please forgive me, we are not monsters,'” reported the news agency.
Amber had lain on top of her children under a cold meat counter in the Nakumatt supermarket inside the upscale mall before being shot.
Elliot’s uncle Alex Coutts said that they had a lucky escape.
The attack on the mall by a group of gunmen has killed at least 72 and injured hundreds more.
