CHAPTER 18The sound of splitting wood and a whine made Alina realise that something was wrong. Next she heard the report from a rifle as a second bullet tore through the shelter.
"Get down!" she screamed as she grabbed both Sharon and Mukta and hauled them to the floor where everyone managed to squeeze beneath a bench adjoining the wall.
A third and fourth bullet ricocheted across the building. If they had remained sitting on the bench one, if not all of them would have been hit. In his haste the gunman gave his intentions away.
But all he had to do was lower his aim a little.
"Crawl on your tummy out the door and along to the left," she shouted for the other two appeared to be frozen in fear. "Keep going along outside and head for those ferns that aren't too far away. Don't stand up o
