Blood of my friends fell on my face
A TEENAGE survivor of the massacre told yesterday how he played dead after Taliban gunmen sprayed bullets at his classmates for ten minutes.
Ehsan Elahi, 13, was shot twice in the arm and felt his friends’ ‘warm blood and flesh’ on his face as he cowered from the killers. But the brave pupil managed to stop himself from crying out, knowing that any noise would mean certain death.
Ehsan was in the main hall when he heard gunfire on Tuesday morning. Speaking from his hospital bed, he said: ‘Everybody was trying to find a place to hide but there was no such places in the hall. I jumped behind a bench and lay on the ground.’
Ehsan could only watch as his friends were shot. He described seeing body parts and blood from his classmates ‘flying like small pieces of cotton’.
‘Warm blood and flesh of my friends fell on my face and other parts of my body. It was horrible,’ he said. ‘The hall has turned to pool of blood and death.’ It emerged yesterday that one pupil escaped the slaughter because his alarm clock failed to wake him.
All of 15-year-old Dawood Ibrahim’s classmates were killed, leaving him to attend funerals for six of his closest friends yesterday.
Dawood has been left unable to speak by the tragedy. His brother Sufyan said: ‘Dawood isn’t talking to anyone, he isn’t talking at all.’