Survivor Dara cheated death in Mumbai attack

FRIENDS of Dara Huang insist she is a survivor. Indeed she literally is: she survived a hail of bullets in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, something she dramatically recounted on her Facebook page, describing how she was caught in the crossfire while visiting the exclusive Taj Mahal Palace hotel.

In a haunting post, she wrote: ‘After finishing a tall glass of watermelon juice there was a huge boom that hit an aquarium in the back of the room.

‘Everyone turned around and simply thought “What was that?” but not expecting anything serious. The next thing I knew consecutive shots rang non-stop across the room.

‘John [a friend] threw me to the floor screaming, “GET DOWN!” My purse was on the seat next to me, but I didn’t even think for a second about it.

‘I was bent over trying to run out. John pushed me to the floor. I believed he saved my life. I still don’t understand how I made it out when I later read there were two gunmen walking in with large guns.

‘There was glass in my hands [and] the skin on my knees was rubbed off from hitting the floor – yet I couldn’t feel the pain. My heart and adrenaline were so high. I was just thinking, “This IS NOT really happening to me.”

‘As I picked myself up off the glass shards on the floor, I bolted down the road, my left hand dripping in blood. My shoes fell off, but I didn’t care, I just kept running.’