Kenya: He was a celebrated young architect, she was a well known AIDS researcher pregnant

[cali]

with their first child who was due in a couple of weeks.


Ross Langdon's family mourn architect killed in Kenya and pregnant partner

Clintons pay tribute to 'brilliant, dedicated and deeply admired' vaccines researcher Elif Yavuz


The Australian family of the architect gunned down with his pregnant partner in a Kenyan shopping centre have spoken about their grief at losing three family members in just a few minutes.

Ross Langdon, a dual Australian-British national, was with his partner, Elif Yavuz, at the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi at the weekend when it was stormed by al-Shabaab militants, who killed more than 60 people. The couple were among their first victims.

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He had been working on the design of a HIV centre in Uganda before his death, while Dutch-born and Harvard-educated Yavuz was employed by the Clinton Foundation as a Tanzanian-based senior vaccines researcher.

Former US president Bill Clinton, his wife, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, released a statement saying they were shocked and saddened by Yavuz's death.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/24/ross-langdon-family-mourn

[Stargazer09]

1. :(

Sometimes, I just want to find a nicer planet on which to live.

[theHandpuppet]

2. More victims of religious fanaticism

It never ceases to disgust me just how many people will commit the most heinous of crimes in the name of their god.

[pampango]

3. Nice post, cali. So many of the victims were people working to make the world a better place. n/t

[cali]

4. they reportedly died in each other's arms. so sad. two young people

who despite their youth have left a legacy of bettering the world.

[leftynyc]

5. Thank you, Cali

Reminding us that these were humans with very human lives and how so many families (68 at least) have to come to grips with losing their loved ones in such a tragic way. I can't even imagine the inhumanity that would force someone to kill a woman 8 months pregnant while looking right into her face.