A student who survived the deadly massacre at a school in Uganda described how he covered himself in blood to hide during an Islamist rebel group’s attack.
“I smeared the blood of my dead colleagues in my mouth, ears and on my head so that the attackers would think I was dead,” Julius Isingoma told the BBC.
“I lay next to the bloodied bodies of my friends and thought very fast. Then I smeared a lot of blood into my ears, mouth and on my head and when the militants came, they checked my hand for a pulse and left,” he added.