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Alex Kariuki who survived DusitD2 terrorist attack.
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.
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