Meet the only survivor of Class 9 after Pakistan School Massacre

A boy is being considered one of the lukiest boys
alive after he missed going to school because his
alarm didn’t go off .Dawood Ibrahim’s alarm
clock failed to work and he overslept and avoided
getting caught up in the massacre at his school in
Pakistan.
The 15-year-old is now the only member of class
9 left at the Army Public School in Peshawar
after terrorists slaughtered every one of his
classmates.
His older brother, Sufyan Ibrahim, confirmed his
remarkable escape to The Express Tribune of
Pakistan.
‘It was fate. No one from his class survived.
Every single one of them was killed.’It’s
believed that his class may have been
murdered by one of the gunmen detonating a
suicide vest
Meanwhile, Ehsan Elahi, 13, told how he survived
by playing dead after being shot twice in the arm
as militants ‘
Speaking from his hospital bed, the eight-grade
pupil said he was being taught first aid by army
instructors in the main hall when he heard the
sound of gunfire drawing nearer.He said: ‘

Elahi Pictured centre
Our teachers and instructors asked us to calm
down but the sound of the bullets started came
closer and closer.In the next minute, the glass
of windows and doors of the hall smashed with
bullets. Some people started kicking the hall
doors.’
He said that situation created panic among the
100 students in the hall.
‘Everybody was trying to find a place to hide
but there was not such places in the hall.
‘The students were crying and weeping. There
were only chairs and benches to hide behind in
the hall. I jumped behind a bench and laid on
the ground.’
He said the attackers burst in and started
‘spraying bullets like hell’.
‘I saw army instructors falling on the ground
first. I saw many of my friends getting bullets
on their heads, chests, arms and legs right in
front of me.
‘Their body parts and blood were flying like
small pieces of cotton in the class room.
‘Warm blood and flesh of my friends fell on my
face and other parts of my body. It was
horrible. They kept on firing bullets for at least
10 minutes and then stopped. It was a pause of
a maximum of a minute. Next moment, they
started spraying bullets again towards those
who were crying with pain or moving. I also
received two bullets on my right arm.
‘I wanted to cry with my full voice but I held
my pain and did not cry because it meant
death.’They were not ready to leave alive even
a single person present in the hall. After
around 15 minutes, we heard some bullets
shots from outside. I think army soldiers
reached the school by that time and they fired
those bullets. This diverted the attention of the
attackers. They ran out from the hall. But, I did
not move or cried for next 10 minutes unless
army men came to rescue us.