A survivor of the four day attack claimed by Somali Islamic militant group al-Shabab on Nairobi's Westgate Mall says she lay hidden from gunmen by covering herself in the blood of a dying teenager who lay beside her.

Amid the chaos and bloodshed that engulfed the shopping centre when the assault began on Saturday, Sneha Kothari Mashru saw the only way to survive was to play dead.

"We hid behind a car for a few minutes until this terrorist came and he started shooting randomly at anybody and whoever he found moving around he just started shooting," she said.

During a lull in the attack, Ms Mashru said she was concerned that the ring tone of a mobile phone would bring back the assailants.

She realised the ringing was coming from beneath the body of a young boy who lay on his front breathing heavily beside her.

"I put my hand under his tummy, that's when I realised he was shot, because he was bleeding. So I pulled out the phone slowly and I tried to switch it off, it was all full of blood, and I tried to switch off the phone so that it could stop ringing," she said.

"I took a lot of his blood ... and I tried to put it on myself. I put it on my arm, a lot of the teenagers' blood, and while I was trying to put it on my hand I just realised that he had stopped breathing at that time.

"So I put it on my arm, as much as I could, and I covered my face with my hair ... just to pretend that I'm dead or probably badly injured," she said.

"I would still love to know who he is and everything, because his blood probably protected me from getting probably more injured or attacked."

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