Ms. Cynthia Cheroitich hid herself in the wardrobe for two days
A survivor of the Kenya university massacre
hid in a wardrobe for two days cowering in fear before finally being rescued
today, 50 hours after the barbaric attack, as a horrifying picture of a classroom
strewn with dead bodies emerged.
Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, was initially too
petrified to come out, but a lecturer she knew eventually convinced her that
police officers were not the al-Shabaab gunmen who slaughtered nearly 150
people at the college.
Ms Cheroitich, who hid under a pile of
clothes, told police officers that she drank body lotion to survive because she
was too terrified to open the wardrobe doors.
Wanted for the atrocities
Kenyan troops searching the building were said
to have been alarmed when they heard sounds coming from inside a wardrobe.
A police officer said: 'She kept asking for
reassurance from the security forces they were not Al-Shabaab before she could
come out.
'She was given milk and rushed to the Garissa
hospital, where she is being observed before being given counselling.'
Ms.Cheroitich said while in the wardrobe all she was doing was praying to God
to save her.
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