Kenyan Massacre: Horrified Student Rescued After 2 Days In Closet

Garissa, Kenya (CNN) - First came the gunshots. Then the footsteps, as Al-Shabaab militants followed her into her dorm room. Cynthia Cheroitich went into a closet, covering herself with clothes. Her two roommates hid under their beds, until the gunmen called them out.

"(The gunmen) told them if you don't know to read to them in the Muslim word, whatever, and then you lie down. And then, if you know, you go to the other side." Cheroitich told CNN.

The 19-year-old student at Kenya's Garissa University College didn't see what happened next, but she heard more than enough. "They were shooting everywhere. I didn't want to open my eyes."

For the next two days, Cheroitich didn't budge. Unable to get to water, she hydrated by drinking body lotion. When police went into her room - well after the carnage was done, with 147 dead at the school - she didn't believe them. Only a visit by the head of the university convinced her that, finally, it was safe to come out. "I was scared so much," she recalled.

Watch her interview on CNN here.

Culled from: CNN.com