{"id":14201,"date":"2016-04-08T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=14201"},"modified":"2016-04-08T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T06:49:08","slug":"yemen-eyewitness-account-from-nun-who-survived-massacre-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/04\/08\/yemen-eyewitness-account-from-nun-who-survived-massacre-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"YEMEN Eyewitness account from nun who survived massacre &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>YEMEN\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Eyewitness account from nun who survived massacre<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A nun who is the lone survivor of an Islamic State terrorist attack on a church-run retirement home in Yemen earlier this month has provided an eyewitness testimony of the massacre that took the lives of 16 people, including four nuns.<\/p>\n<p>In speaking with a fellow nun named Sister Rio, Sister Sally, the superior of the sisters&#8217; community in Yemen, gave her detailed account of the 4 March massacre\u00a0at the Missionaries of Charity home in Aden, thought to have been carried out by Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>As Sister Sally recalled the horrific\u00a0incident, her recollection was written down on a piece of paper by Sister Adriana.\u00a0According to her\u00a0account, IS militants stormed the home around 8:30 a.m. and immediately killed the guard and a driver.<\/p>\n<p>Five Christian Ethiopian men ran to alert the nuns that IS militants were there to kill them.\u00a0&#8220;They were killed one by one,&#8221; the account reads. &#8220;They tied them to trees, shot them in the head and smashed their heads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four women who worked at the home began shouting &#8220;Don&#8217;t kill the Sisters! Don&#8217;t kill the Sisters&#8221;\u00a0as the nuns\u00a0ran two-by-two in different directions. Those four women \u00a0were also killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They caught Sister Judith and Sister Reginette first, tied them up, shot them in the head and smashed their heads,&#8221; the testimony explains. &#8220;They caught Sister Anselm and Sister Marguerite, tied them, shot them in the head and smashed their heads in the sand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The testimony states that it wasn&#8217;t clear how many IS jihadis had participated in the attack. Sister Sally was able to escape the militants&#8217; wrath by standing in the refrigerator room behind a door. Fortunately, none of the militants noticed her standing there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These ISIS men were everywhere, searching for her, as they knew there were five [nuns],&#8221; the account states. &#8220;At least three times they came into the refrigerator room. She did not hide, but remained standing behind the door \u2014 they never saw her. 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