Kenya terror attack: ‘I ate body lotion to survive’ says student found hiding for TWO DAYS
A TEENAGE woman has emerged as a survivor of the Kenyan university terrorist attack, two days after the barbaric siege.
Student Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, ate body lotion to quench her thirst while barricading herself in a wardrobe and hiding under a pile of clothes while violent terrorists rampaged through her school.
The teenager had to crouch and listen to her classmates be shot dead as she cowered inside the cupboard for two days.
Five gunmen stormed Garissa University College in the northeastern Kenyan town on Thursday, after peppering the site with grenades.
The sick men then singled out Christians from the university while freeing Muslims in traditional dress.
I was just praying to my God
Brave Ms Cheroitich crawled inside the cupboard in a classroom and refused to come out of the wardrobe for two days.
She refused to leave, even with al-Shabaab militants ordered she and her classmates to do so.
She even feared rescuers were militants, only revealing herself at 10am this morning when one of her teachers appealed to her.
She said: "How do I know that you are the Kenyan police?
"I was just praying to my God."
Cheroitich appeared tired and thirsty, sipping on yoghurt and a soft drink, but otherwise seemed in good health.
Another student, Cheruiot Tiebafy, said he smeared himself in blood to appear dead to the attackers.
He said: "Actually I am the only man who survived from all the boys who were held hostage.
"I just smeared the blood of my colleagues, I ate the blood to be my lunch and I go to sleep there for around 13 good hours when we got to be hostage and I pretended to be dead.
"They turned me around, they kicked me but I'm alive."
