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Over the weekend, the world was devastated to learn about the tragic mass shootings at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

On Saturday, a group of terrorist with supposed ties to al-Shabaab took over the mall and went on a mass shooting spree, leaving as many as 68 dead and dozens of others injured. Since that time, Kenya forces are still in a standoff with some remaining members of the terrorist group who have an unknown amount of hostages, which is now entering day four.

But among the survivors of Saturday’s deadly attacks is a woman from Silver Spring, Md., who told the Canadian Broadcasting Company about her ordeal and how she got out of the situation physically unscathed.

“I had just arrived at the mall,” Sarah Head told the CBC. “I had left a meeting just a few blocks away. We arrived in the parking garage and parked our car and right as we exited, I heard three gunshots. I thought it was a car accident. I thought maybe a car had been rear-ended or something, and I saw people around me running.”

Head told the CBC that she hid with a colleague and her driver under a car before making their way to a stairwell where they hid from the terrorists for an hour and a half. In the stairwell, Head says “there were two people there in the stairwell with me who had superficial wounds from gunshots.” Eventually, Head and the other survivors got out of the stairwell to safety through a door to a supermarket in the mall, and exited through the stockroom to the loading docks outside.

“There was blood on the floor as we were exiting,” Head says, “which looked like someone had been wounded and carried out.”