IDF and Magen David Adom at the sceneof the terror shooting in the Barkan industrial Zone. (photo credit: HALLEL MEIR/TPS)
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Sara Vaturi, 54, the only surviving victim from Sunday’s terror attack at the Barkan Industrial Park, recounted her ordeal to Israeli media from her room at the Belinson Hospital ahead of her release on Monday.
“He stood in front of me and shot me.” Sara Vaturi told reporters.
The suspect, identified as Ashraf Walid Suleiman Naalwa, 23 shot her, and Kim Levengrond-Yehezkel, 29, of Rosh Haayin and Ziv Hajbi, 35, from Rishon Lezion on Sunday.
Vaturi said that after a colleague ran into her office shaking, “I went out of my office to see what happened.”
“I didn’t hear anything outside, and when my colleague came into the office, I assumed she wasn’t feel well,” Vaturi said. “So I went out to see what was going on — he stood in front of me and shot me.”
After Vaturi was shot, she huddled under her desk to hide from Na’alwa and attempted to stop the bleeding. “I ran away to my office, hid under my desk and just breathed,” she said. “Then I heard four or five loud shots. I looked from under my desk and saw his legs, jeans and sneakers, and within seconds he disappeared.”
Na’alwa had a permit to work at the Barkan park where he had been employed as an electrician for the past seven months at a factory run by the Alon Group. Israel is searching for him with the help of Palestinian security forces. However, Vaturi said she did not recognize him and has never seen him before.
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Several minutes later, she explained that two colleagues came from another part of the factory and offered first aid until the paramedics arrived.
Vaturi’s voice cracked as she explained the moment she learned about the deaths of her co-workers. “They told me that Ziv and Kim were no longer alive, and he didn’t stop helping me until the paramedics arrived,” she said. “Those people were not human, they were angels.”
Having only worked at the factory for five months, Vaturi spoke warmly of Levengrond-Yehezkel and Hajbi. “Kim was a young mother, always smiling and showing photos of her son.,” she recalled. “Ziv, a charming man and a great father. I met his children when they were on summer vacation.”
Thankful for her survival, Vaturi explained that the bullet entered and exited her body without hitting any vital organs and that she would be going home later that same day.
Tovah Lazaroff and Anna Ahronheim contributed to this report
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