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Ruhila Adatia-Sood

Ruhila Adatia-Sood

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Ruhila Adatia-Sood (29 August 1982 – 21 September 2013) was a Kenyan television and radio presenter and journalist[1] of Indian heritage.[2]

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Ruhila Adatia was born and brought up in Kitisuru, Nairobi.[1][2] She graduated from Aga Khan Academy, Nairobi,[3] and in 2007 from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Since 2007 she had worked for Kenya Radio Africa Group as a news presenter and Rankingshow Kiss 100 moderator for Kiss TV, and Metro East FM, a radio station in Nairobi aimed at Kenyan Asians. Since 2011 she was, together with Kamal Kaur, a moderator of a TV cooking show for children,[4] recorded each month in Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi.[5]

She was a member of Kenya's Ismaili Muslim community.[6] In January 2012, she married Ketan Sood, a member of the USAID mission in Nairobi; the wedding took place at the Arya Samaj Temple in Parklands, Nairobi.[7]

She was wounded in the Westgate shopping mall shooting while hosting a cooking competition for children in the centre's rooftop car park, and died on the way to the Aga Khan Hospital.[8] At the time of her death, at the age of 31,[6] she was six or seven months pregnant with her first child.[9][10]

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    "Radio Journalist Ruhila Adatia Killed in Westgate Attack: Her Last Media Update". mwakilishi.com. 21 September 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
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    Mukel, Catherine (15 September 2012). "Kenya: Relative Values - I Had My First Relationship in My 20s, It Was Approved By My Sisters and Friends". The Star. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
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    Ruhila Adatia-Sood
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    "Kenya mall attack: Indian-origin radio presenter among those killed". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
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    Article: East FM Radio Presenter And Ruhila Adatia's Close Friend Kamal Kaur Talks About Her Harrowing Ordeal At Westgate! on ghafla.co.ke Archived 2013-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
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    "Kenya buries its dead amid search for bodies and clues". New Straits Times. 2013-09-26. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
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    James Murua, "Kiss TV's Gossip Girl weds", The Star, 9 January 2012
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    "Nairobi Westgate attack: The victims". BBC News. 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
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    "Kenya standoff: The victims". BBC News. 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-09-21.
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    "AllInsights". Reuters. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
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