I had to smear blood on my face----survivor of Kenyan university attack.

When the gunmen stormed the university, barefoot and barking out orders in Swahili,  Hellen Titus, a student sought refuge in a closet and stayed quiet.
Bullets whizzed past as her schoolmates fled away in
the dark. Bullets pierced their heads, one after another.
In the chaos, Titus decided she was safer in the
closet. But her refuge was short lived  when the gunmen discovered her hiding about an hour later.
They led her and dozens of other students into a common room normally used for viewing television.
       "Lie down!" the attackers told them, lecturing them on how the Quran forbids the killing of women and so murdered only the men.
Not much later, they changed their minds and turned to kill the women also.
   "One of them was urging another, 'shoot them, shoot them!',
she said of a terrorist.
Titus survived the horrible event by smearing a friend's blood on her face and playing dead.
"I just rubbed myself, soaked myself with that blood," she said Friday at a makeshift center for
evacuated students. "They skipped me......."
See video here
Source: CNN

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