Ruhila Adatia-Sood (29 August 1982 – 21 September 2013) was a Kenyan television and radio presenter and
journalist
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of
India
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n heritage.
Ruhila Adatia was born and brought up in
Kitisuru
Kitisuru is a residential suburb of Nairobi. The name Kitisuru comes from a nearby river "Gìtathurù" which was borrowed from the original inhabitants of the area who were mainly of the Kikuyu dialect. Kitisuru forms part of Kitisuru Ward, a ...
,
Nairobi
Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...
.
Rhodes University
Rhodes University is a public university, public research university located in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is one of four universities in the province. Established in 1904, ...
in Grahamstown
Makhanda, also known as Grahamstown, is a town of about 140,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about northeast of Port Elizabeth and southwest of East London, Eastern Cape, East London. Makhanda is the lar ...
, South Africa
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. 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, recorded each month in Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi.
She was a member of Kenya's Ismaili
Isma'ilism ( ar, الإسماعيلية, al-ʾIsmāʿīlīyah) is a branch or sub-sect of Shia Islam. The Isma'ili () get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor (imām) to Ja'far al-Sa ...
Muslim community.[ In January 2012, she married Ketan Sood, a member of the ]USAID
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bi ...
mission in Nairobi; the wedding took place at the Arya Samaj Temple in Parklands, Nairobi.
She was wounded in the Westgate shopping mall shooting
On 21 September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the Westgate shopping mall, an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the number killed in the attack, since part of the mall collapsed due to a fire that starte ...
while hosting a cooking competition for children in the centre's rooftop car park, and died on the way to the Aga Khan Hospital. At the time of her death, at the age of 31,
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Ruhila Adatia blog
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Kenyan journalists
Kenyan radio journalists
Kenyan television journalists
Kenyan women radio journalists
Kenyan women television journalists
Kenyan radio presenters
Kenyan women radio presenters
Kenyan television presenters
Kenyan women television presenters
2013 deaths
1982 births
Murdered journalists
Kenyan murder victims
People murdered in Kenya
Deaths by firearm in Kenya
Rhodes University alumni
Kenyan Ismailis
Kenyan people of Indian descent
People from Nairobi
Violence against women in Kenya