Report: Silver Spring Woman Escaped Mall Attack in Kenya

A Silver Spring woman was among those who escaped an attack by gunmen at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where dozens were killed, according to news reports.

Sara Head of Silver Spring, who works in public health at Fairfax-based ICF International, survived by hiding from Somali terrorists who seized the mall Saturday, she told Canada's CBC.

"There were two people with me in the stairwell who had superficial wounds from gunshots and we were eventually able to leave after about an hour and a half thorough a supermarket," she told the CBC.

The mall was said to be back under the control of Kenyan officials on Monday.