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"My hell lasted 32 minutes"
As a result of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, 139 people died on March 22, another 121 people were injured . Among them was Petersburger Anastasia Gulyaeva, who studies and works in Moscow. Now she is in a hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning and a burn of the airways.
“Paper” talked with Anastasia Gulyaeva about how she was saved from a burning building and what she feels after what happened.
How Anastasia was saved during the attack
- I came to Crocus City Hall at about 19:45. At first I looked at the souvenirs, left outerwear in the wardrobe, and then climbed to my place to the third floor. Then I decided to go to the buffet and take a drink. Around 19:58 noise began.
At first, poppies were heard and everyone thought that the show began. But very quickly it became clear that it was shooting.
People began to run out of the hall. Together with a group of people, I ran to one of the evacuation exits. But there we were deployed and everyone ran to another exit. There was a wardrobe next to him and some began to jump over the partition to hide there. It was hard for me to jump over and I thought that it was not the best idea to stay in the building.
I and a few more people ran to the second floor. There I realized that I am already losing an adequate perception of reality. I asked others where they would go, but no one understood anything. Everyone was in a panic.
Then I accidentally saw a Crocus employee and decided to be near her because she knew how the building was arranged. The woman led us to the black move. On the way I saw corpses. Among them was the body of a shot very young girl. I was lucky that the Crocus employees fled with me because they dragged the corpses to the sides.
In the black move, we began to go down to the parking lot. At that moment, smoke began. Smoke became more and more. When soot appeared, the light turned off and we were in complete darkness. I turned on the flashlight on the phone, but it shone poorly through smoke.
Two Krokus workers fled to us. They broke the door to the parking lot and thanks to them we survived. It was approximately 20:30, that is, my hell lasted 32 minutes. This is not enough compared to the rest, I was very lucky.
At this time, the roof of the building began to burn. Somewhere there were firefighters. A man stood next to me and cursed very much due to the fact that the territory of the "crocus" was not cordoned off. Even an hour after the start of the attack, I was able to call a taxi to the concert hall and calmly leave.
How Anastasia got to the hospital
- After the attack, I went home. But there I felt that I had some scattered consciousness, and also a lot of my throat and a terrible cough. I called an ambulance and I was taken to the Name Zeozemov hospital.
In an ambulance, I said that I spent more than an hour on the street without outerwear. Doctors were surprised why I ran out of the building in one T -shirt. People did not immediately understand how serious the tragedy occurred.
I thought they would let me go after the examination, but I was left in the hospital for three days. Doctors said that I had a carbon monoxide poisoning and a burn of the upper respiratory tract.
On Saturday, the investigator came to me and the rest of the victims. I said what was with me during the attack. I also asked if the investigations have the contacts of the Crocus employees who brought me and the rest from the building for the parking lot. I believe that they are real heroes, I wanted to thank them. But the investigator said that he knows nothing about those men.
How Anastasia reacted to the consequences of the attack
- The whole situation after the attack is a huge wave of xenophobia. The detainee was arranged for reprisal, in social networks people began to tell how they cancel taxi orders if they see that a driver with a non -Russian appearance was going to them. People have become so embittered.
At the same time, the workers who saved me during the attack were also migrants. They broke the door, although there was smoke around. They had nothing to breathe.
A taxi driver who was not afraid to follow me to Crocus was also a migrant. Along the way, he offered me water and other help, supported me. Yandex.Taxi returned me the money for that trip, but the driver seems to be getting nothing.
Migrants from Central Asia helped me and other people during and after the attack. Now they are even less protected from cruelty.
Now I have no fear of being in crowded places. Soon I will go to work by public transport again. At the work itself, I will also be with people. I plan to lead the same lifestyle that I led. It was an intimidation action. Its organizers want to instill fear, helplessness and bitterness in people. They want to move people away from each other. This is wrong.
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