Kenya mall attack: Awoonor’s injured son doing well

The injured son of killed Ghanaian literary giant, Professor Kofi Awoonor-Williams, is responding to treatment at a hospital in Kenya following the al-shabaab terrorist attack on non-Muslims at the Westgate shopping mall in the country’s national capital, Nairobi.

Prof. Awoonor and 58 others have so far been confirmed dead.

About 175 people sustained injuries in Saturday’s attack.

It is not clear yet which of Prof. Awoonor’s sons was with him at the mall when the attack occurred.

Relatives of the late Chairman of the Council of sSate are distraught about the tragic death of the poet and dramatist.

His hometown, Wheta in the Volta region, is in a sombre mood, according to XYZ News’ Correspondent Emmanuel Atukpa.