As a vicious gunman murdered 24 children at a day care in Thailand, one 3-year-old girl slept through the entire massacre.
The girl, identified only as Emmy, was found awake and alive Thursday as authorities surveyed the horror at Young Children’s Development Center in Uthai Sawan, the BBC reported.
Emmy was scooped up and taken upstairs, her face covered with a blanket to shield her from the devastation.
“She had no idea what was happening when she woke up,” her grandfather Somsak Srithong told the BBC.
Emmy’s parents heard that all the children at the day care were killed in the massacre, which left 36 people dead, including 24 children. Her mother, working 260 miles south in Bangkok, needed to see her on video before she believed she was still alive.
“I finally got a video call with Emmy and was filled with blessed relief,” Panompai Srithong told the BBC.
Exactly how Emmy survived when all her classmates were killed remains unclear. Earlier reports suggested she was covered by a blanket when the attacker, identified by police as 34-year-old ex-cop Panya Kamrap, entered her classroom.
Panya also killed his wife and son before taking his own life, cops said.
Emmy’s family said she was too young to understand the horror that had unfolded around her.
“She just wants to go to school every day,” her mom told the BBC. “We have to keep telling her the school is closed down. She is too young to understand the concept of death.”
