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This is on point. I'm Megna Chocro Bardi.

22 year old Odelis Garcia was on the second day of her new job at Ecuador Station,

TC Television, when, on January 9th, the unthinkable happened.

It was around 2, 205 in the afternoon. I had just finished sending my notes for the afternoon news.

Suddenly I heard one of my colleagues yelling from outside. They got in. They got in. Hide.

Heavily armed men had broken into the TC television's

headquarters in the coastal city of Goyakil, in the middle of a live news broadcast.

I was in shock. I heard shots, screams and I thought, where am I going to hide? What do I do?

At me, I've been a friend. I've been a officer.

There was an office behind me so I ran and hit under the desk.

But I left the light on and didn't close the door. So I thought, shoot, they're going to find me.

Odelise crept to one of the office bathrooms, where she found two of her coworkers already hiding from the intruders.

The men were pacing the hallways with their guns.

There was a noise from where we were hiding and they said there are more here,

they're more here, they're more here.

We decided that they're going to find us and we need to leave because our fear was that as we were hiding in the bathroom

they were going to shoot at the door. We were afraid of that and decided it was better to

leave. So we left and they were right outside the bathroom door.

One of the men grabbed Odolese by the collar the moment she stepped out of the bathroom.

He pointed a gun at her.

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