19—year—old ancha was heavily pregnant.randmother escaped to hide in the bush with thousands of others. ancha and her grandmother escaped to hide in the bush with thousands of others. wesley, his dad and brother were also hunting safety. get in! toot, too! we turned around and we stopped at the amarula hotel. and a whole lot of people just started streaming in. the amarula was known as a local haunt for white foreign workers. with security gates and a helipad, people flocked here in search of safety. as the attackers swept through town, they targeted key sites like banks, food shops and phone masts. i tried to get hold of all of them on their cellphones, nobody was answering, and i started to panic. eventually at about nine o'clock that night, greg phoned me from a satellite phone and said that we're safe, they're in the amarula, they're going to get evacuated. they were underfire from more than 100 militants, known locally as al—shabaab, who are affiliated with isis. all cheer. an islamist insurgency had been spreading acr