In two weeks they were due to experience the joy of becoming parents for the first time, but instead they died arm in arm in a pool of blood in a Kenyan mall.

A NZ man who narrowly survived a massacre at a Kenyan mall is undergoing surgery to remove shrapnel, while another Kiwi has described hiding in a box to avoid attackers.

A Hastings man was shot in the back during the weekend's mall massacre in Kenya, just days before he was due back in New Zealand.

Terrified shoppers, including one reported New Zealander, huddled in back hallways and prayed the militant gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi's top mall would not find them.

The group leader of a Bay of Plenty college's mission trip to Kenya was asleep when a driver-swap put a teen behind the wheel in a minivan crash that killed four people.

International criminal court indictee Uhuru Kenyatta was officially declared the winner of Kenya's presidential election yesterday.

Bethlehem College will not be investigating the finding by Kenyan police that former school student David Fellows was not the driver of the van in the fatal crash last month.

Former Bethlehem College student David Fellows has been cleared over the crash that killed three New Zealanders in Kenya, with investigators saying he was not the driver.

The teenager driving in the fatal Bethlehem College crash would not have been legally allowed to drive the ill-fated van.

The revelation of a teenager's part in a tragic crash in Kenya has raised more questions than it answers.

The cost of Bethlehem College hiring a PR consultant and private investigator in the aftermath of the Kenyan tragedy will be partly met by taxpayers.

A "good, kind and respected man" is how a former Bethlehem College student describes the teen who was driving the minibus that crashed in Kenya, killing four people.

The teen who had been driving the bus that crashed in Kenya, killing four people, had "carried a very heavy burden'', according to the principal of Bethlehem College.

An 18-year-old man who was driving the minivan that crashed in Kenya, killing three Kiwis, was told to keep quiet about a driver swap, Bethlehem College has revealed.

A normal start to the school year is expected at Tauranga's Bethlehem College today.

The ten children of a couple killed in a mini-van accident in Kenya on January 15 have paid tribute to their parents at a funeral service at Bethlehem College this morning.

One moment there was the noisy banter of a minivan packed with happy school pupils. The next, there was chaos, shock, confusion - "one big nightmare", as one put it.

The New Zealanders injured in the Kenyan minivan crash have been evacuated to the capital Nairobi while the bodies of those who died are on their way back home.

Survivors of a Kenyan bus crash lay in hospital unaware their friends were dead as a college community united to grieve for four people killed.

Lydia Hollister-Jones was good friends with Caitlin Dickson, one of four people killed in a Kenyan bus crash. She wrote a heartfelt blog about her.

A New Zealand teenager who died as a result of a bus crash in Kenya told passengers going to her aid to help others first, despite being badly injured.

Friends and family of the three New Zealanders killed in a road accident in Kenya days before their return home will gather today to remember them.

A dream trip to Kenya has turned to tragedy for students at Tauranga's Bethlehem College after a "grisly'' crash claimed the lives of three Kiwis.