Man recounts how he survived the massacre of 28 Christians by al-Shabaab Terrorists

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November 24, 2014 5:39 PM

36-year-old Douglas Ochwodho watched helplessly as his wife was shot in the head by al-Shabaab militants and her blood may have saved his life.

A teacher who survived the horrific massacre of 28 non-Muslims in Mombasa, Kenya has described the Saturday massacre as a 'scene from hell'.

Islamic militants al-Shabaab ambushed a bus in Kenya, rounded up and executed 28 non-Muslims at point-blank range in a revenge attack for police raids on mosques in the troubled city of Mombasa.

36-year-old Douglas Ochwodho has described to journalists how heavily armed al-Shabaab militants entered the bus and greeted them.

Ochwodho said the militants initially wanted to take the bus to Somalia but they got stuck in the muddy road.

It was at this juncture that the militias started shooting their captives on the head. Ochwodho watched helplessly as his wife was shot and her blood may have saved his life.

He said by some miracle, when the terrorists were about to kill him, they started to argue, bypassing him in the process. There was blood flowing all over and some of it had covered his entire body.

“By lack I together with other two men escaped through the bush after the militia had left the scene, one of them told me he hid behind the passenger door, the other below a seat near the driver’s seat, we did not alight when they ordered us, I left my two friends and ran towards the road where I got a lift to Mandera town, that is all I know," he said.

The Nairobi bound Makkah bus service was intercepted at the Khadija-Haji/ Beroulyon junction less than seven kilometers from the Kenya-Somalia border.

Kenya Defence Forces are still hunting for the attackers who are said to have walked into Somalia.

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