My 20 hours in hell and back during DusitD2 ambush

Alex Kariuki, a survivor of Dusit terrorist attack explains how he managed to escape alive in the February 2019 attack that left scores dead, during an interview with Standard in Nairobi on Tuesday, January 08 2020. [David Njaaga,Standard]

He can’t explain it. All he knows is somehow, life still had a purpose for him. He survived the ordeal through God’s grace.

Alex Kariuki, 33, was going about his work as a gym instructor at DusitD2 that fateful January afternoon when two terrorists trudged in with one mission – to kill as many people as possible. With bullets flying around him, missing him in a way he still finds hard to fathom, he somehow held on for dear life, clinging on to the rafts of the roof of the hotel, lying motionless on a ceiling, to emerge a survivor of the attack, 20 hours later.