(Trinidad Express) – Trinidad national Ravindra Ramrattan was among several people killed in a terrorist attack and siege at a Kenyan shopping mall that entered its third day yesterday.

Ramrattan, who was awarded the President’s medal gold in 2002, was living and working in Nairobi, Kenya since September 2011. He was employed as a research economist.

It was reported that several people were killed and many others held hostage in an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi where al-Qaeda-linked militants attacked.

The Red Cross in Kenya said the death toll in the attack at Narobi’s Westgate Shopping Mall was at least 68.

The Kenya Defence Force posted on its Twitter account on Sunday night that “most of the hostages have been rescued’’ and that four security forces had taken control of “most parts of the building.’’

Ramrattan, of Monroe Road, Cunupia, attended Presentation College, Chagua-nas. He attained distinctions in mathematics, chemistry, physics and general paper at the Advanced Level examinations and was named President’s gold medal winner.