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A Brave Kenyan Student Emerges Alive Two Days After University Terror Attack

A Brave Kenyan Student Emerges Alive Two Days After University Terror Attack
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Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, a survivor of the attack on Garissa University College who was found on Saturday two days after the attack, speaks to a television reporter in a hospital ward in Garissa, Kenya, Saturday, April 4, 2015. Cheroitich told The Associated Press from her hospital gurney that she hid in a large cupboard and covered herself with clothes, refusing to emerge even when some of her classmates came out of hiding at the demands of the gunmen from the al-Shabab group. (AP Photo/Andrew Njuguna)

Rescuers found 19-year-old Kenyan student Cynthia Cheroitich hiding in a dormitory closet early Saturday, two days after al-Shabab militants stormed Garissa University College, targeting Christians and killing 147 students.

The young woman had refused to emerge when police insisted it was safe, she told the Associated Press, only agreeing to climb out after one of her professors arrived to assure her the threat had really passed.

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