A former pupil at a Perthshire school was shot in the shoulder as he sheltered a young boy during the Kenyan shopping centre massacre.
Simon Belcher, 48, who was educated at Rannoch School, is recovering in hospital after being hit while taking cover under a car with his wife, Amanda, and the four-year-old.
They were at the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi when it was attacked by al-Shabaab terrorists on Saturday afternoon.
The couple hid under a vehicle in the top-floor car park, but as Mr Belcher tried to protect the child he was shot in the shoulder and the bullet lodged in his stomach.
Mrs Belcher was not hit and they escaped before the end of the siege.
She later took to Facebook to reassure friends and relatives that her husband is “not in danger, cracking the most terrible jokes”.
Kenya-born Mr Belcher attended Rannoch School, which closed in 2002, before studying for a degree in South Africa.
He returned to his native Kenya 20 years ago and started his own safari company before partnering with Royal African Safaris in 2012.
Mr and Mrs Belcher have two children who go to school in South Africa.
Friends have praised Mr Belcher for protecting the child.
One said: “They were all hidden in the top car park until the military began firing at the al-Shabaab militants.
“The terrorists then all got under cars to escape the gunfire and that’s when they spotted Simon.”