That evening Islam worked part-time in the wardrobe. At first he heard strange sounds and thought that something was wrong with the escalator. But then the sounds intensified, he saw people running down.
“Everyone ran through one door and crowded around the Expo exit because the main doors had been captured by terrorists. I saw them, they were above me. The door could only be opened with a card, I had it, I pushed people away with the words: “They’re shooting, shooting, let me pass!” — and opened the door,” Islam told RT.
Through this exit, he said, he brought more than a hundred people out onto the street. It also helped that the teenager had worked at Crocus many times and knew the location of its entrances and exits very well. Some people had to be literally taken out.
“People were in shock, some were crying, some were screaming, there were also those who just stood still and didn’t know what to do. I told them where to go,” says Islam.
Islam is in ninth grade, enjoys football and dreams of becoming an IT specialist in the future.
About the rescue, he says that he simply did his job and acted according to instructions.
Earlier, Alexei Loginov, deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Moscow Region, said that rescuers had cleared 63 cubic meters of rubble in Crocus City Hall.