A survivor of Kenya’s university massacre who
hid in a wardrobe for two days too terrified to
come out was rescued safely on Saturday,
dehydrated but apparently unharmed, Kenya Red
Cross said.
“A survivor has been discovered, she was hiding
in a wardrobe,” Kenya Red Cross spokeswoman
Arnolda Shiundu told AFP.
“She has been taken to hospital and she’s
currently undergoing assessment by doctors.”
Agence France-Presse reports that the 19-year
old woman was initially too scared to come out
until a university lecturer she knew came to
convince her that the police officers were not the
Shebab gunmen who carried out the killing of
nearly 150 of her fellow students, police said.
“She is the latest survivor, she has been hiding in
a wardrobe for two days,” a police officer
involved in the security operation said, who
asked not to be named. “That is when she came
out of the wardrobe and rushed to hospital.”
The student was rescued on Saturday morning,
some 50 hours after the attack began. The
gunmen were killed on Thursday evening.
The BBC said she told them she drank “body
lotion when she felt hungry.”
Kenyan troops searching the building were
alarmed when they heard sounds coming from
inside a wardrobe.
“She kept asking for reassurance from the
security forces they were not Al-Shebab before
she could come out,” the police officer said.
“She was given milk and rushed to the Garissa
hospital, where she is being observed before
being given counselling.”
Four survivors were also found on Friday,
Shiundu said.
This is as the Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary,
Joseph Nkaissery, on Saturday, confirmed that
police had arrested three more suspects, in
addition to two others, over an attack in Garissa
University.
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