They were banging on the door now and the door didn’t look like it would hold out for long….

I scanned the room for a lifeline,wait a minute!!!! I had seen a stack of neatly folded towels, an idea flashed into my head…It was a gamble but I was gonna take it…

As I packed the stack of towels to the window, I looked out to see several soldiers running into the hospital, the entire compound was deserted now except for the lorries which had brought the soldiers earlier in the day and a black BMW x6 which I suspected belonged to a doctor in the hospital….”crash” my thoughts were interrupted as the first hinge on the door broke…..As fast as I could, I tied the towels together, tied one end to a bed, pulled the bed to the window and out the window I went….As I climbed down, the bed rocked dangerously and the door gave way as soldiers poured into the room and as soon as they were able to decipher what I was up to….they turned back and made for the stairs. I already had a headstart….

Hanging by the series of towels I had linked, I positioned myself at a window on the second floor, shattering the glass with my elbow, I swung in during which the linked towels started tearing…..I held on to the window frame with all the strength I could muster and pulled myself into the room……..knowing I didn’t have time, I raced past the startled patients to reach the door and as soon as I had opened it, I saw several soldiers racing down the stairs. Remembering the chlorine canister, I retrieved it from the overall I wore, threw it up the staircase and pulling the gun I shot at it while it exploded and diffused into the air sending the soldiers back up the staircase as they held onto their chests coughing violently…..

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Knowing they would not shoot ‘cos they had definitely kept me alive for a reason, I rushed into the adjacent staircase as I descended to the first floor….Making to navigate to the next flight of stairs,by now the soldiers were in pursuit…Looking ahead, I saw three soldiers pointing in my direction…..I didn’t have time to aim and shoot now….I hurled myself through a door as I made my way into the first floor corridor, ran through a large room filled with patients and without giving myself time to think, I spotted an almaco window and dived at it, shattering the glass in the process as I jumped into the unknown…….”diim”, I landed on the ground with a heavy thud.

I never knew I would make it this far……I turned to look at the window through which I had jumped, soldiers were looking and speaking into their walkie-talkies while some others had started pouring out of the hospital’s entrance….