Ruhila Adatia-Sood | |
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Born | Ruhila Adatia August 29, 1982
Kitisuru, Kenya |
Died | September 21, 2013
Nairobi, Kenya | (aged 31)
Education | Rhodes University |
Occupation | Radio Africa Group presenter |
Years active | 2007–2013 |
Organization | Kiss FM |
Spouse | Ketan Sood |
Ruhila Adatia-Sood (29 August 1982 – 21 September 2013) was a Kenyan television and radio presenter and journalist [1] of Indian heritage. [2]
Ruhila Adatia was born and brought up in Kitisuru, Nairobi. [1] [2] She graduated from Aga Khan Academy, Nairobi, [3] and in 2007 from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. 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, [4] recorded each month in Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi. [5]
She was a member of Kenya's Ismaili Muslim community. [6] In January 2012, she married Ketan Sood, a member of the USAID mission in Nairobi; the wedding took place at the Arya Samaj Temple in Parklands, Nairobi. [7]
She was wounded in the Westgate shopping mall shooting while hosting a cooking competition for children in the centre's rooftop car park, and died on the way to the Aga Khan Hospital. [8] At the time of her death, at the age of 31, [6] she was six or seven months pregnant with her first child. [9] [10]