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Daria, had just stepped out when they felt a massive jolt. The elevator, with the other passengers still inside, fell back down the shaft. She had no idea how far it fell or what happened to them. Daria and her co-workers began running down the stairs in an effort to get out of the building. They had to step over bod- ies in the stairwell. One injured woman handed Daria her identification, asking Daria to tell her family that she loved them. When they finally reached the ground floor, Daria ran to the entrance. She felt an explosion and was thrown beneath a jeep. Debris was falling all around. She was so scared she did- n’t want to come out from under the jeep. Eventually a stranger persuaded her to come out. What she saw in the moments after that will stay with her for the rest of her life. She saw a shoe under a car. Picking it up she saw it con- tained a leg with nothing attached to it. There was an over- turned stroller containing a crying baby, and a rescue worker with his arm and shoulder missing, screaming and running. Looking up, she saw a number of people jumping or falling out of the building. One couple held each other’s hand as they

hijack— to illegally seize an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle while it is traveling, and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes. repressive— exerting strict control over the freedom of others. Words to Understand in This Chapter

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Terrorism