It is one year since suspected Al-Shabaab militants unleashed terror at the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi killing and injuring scores of people.
For the survivors of the horror attack, overcoming the trauma is an ongoing struggle, Aljazeera has reported.
Esther Mwikali, head of operations at an innovation and entrepreneurs' hub at the hotel, recalls that she was behind her desk lost in her day's tasks when the terrorist struck.
"Everything shook," the 27-year-old recalled as quoted by Aljazeera.
"I looked out of the window and I could see smoke. Initially, we thought a transformer blew, then within two minutes, we heard gunshots. A colleague looked outside and said 'those out there are not the police'," Mwikali added.
Mwikali says that she will never be able to forget what happened on that fateful day.
It is the same thing for her friend Whitney Ogutu.
"At the most, you go a day or two without thinking about it," Ogutu said.
"Sometimes I look outside and see where one suicide bomber blew himself up and all of a sudden it's as if I am transported back to that moment," Ogutu added.
Ogutu says that the attack has changed how she lives her life.
"There are certain things we find ourselves doing now which we never did before - for example when I enter a place, I immediately look for the exits and safe spaces to hide. The aim of terrorists is to scare people - and it works," Ogutu says.
Maryam Hassan, a 34-year-old IT consultant, says that she is still struggling with the psychological scars after losing a friend in the attack.
She says that she calls her friend only to realise that she is no more.