Kenya massacre survivor Cynthia Cheroitich hid in wardrobe for 2 days
Student did not believe police were rescuers, fearing it was a trick by Somali gunmen
A survivor of Kenya's university massacre hid under clothes inside a wardrobe for two days, too scared to come out for fear she would be killed.
Nineteen-year-old Cynthia Cheroitich was discovered by forensic police officers who were scouring Garissa University College site after Thursday's killing spree by four al-Shabab killers.
In the worst bloodshed in Kenya in nearly two decades, the gunmen hunted down and executed students at the college, 200km from the Somali border. Their victims were 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.
Cheroitich, who was unharmed but dehydrated, said she did not believe rescuers urging her to come out of her hiding place were there to help, suspecting that they were militants.
"How do I know that you are the Kenyan police?" she said she asked them. Only when security forces had one of her teachers appeal to her did she come out, she said.
"I was just praying to my god," Cheroitich, a Christian, said of her ordeal, during which, she told the BBC, she drank "body lotion when she felt hungry".
Police paraded four corpses of the gunmen piled on top of each other face down in the back of a pick-up truck to see if anyone could identify them.