A freed British hostage has told Sky News that he feared he had fallen into the hands of terrorists after fleeing the Algerian gas complex where he had been holed up for four days.
Alan Wright spent days hidden in a pitch-black room with colleagues at the In Amenas plant after hearing gunfire.
Eventually, the 30 or so workers in the building decided to cut through a perimeter fence and make a break for it.
But he said feared he had made the "biggest mistake" of his life when the troops who intercepted them in the desert split them into ex-pats and locals - and he assumed they had fallen into the hands of the terrorists.
"You just think 'that's it'. If you'd been captured there was pretty much no escape from them, and you know it's going to take a miracle to get you out."
The ordeal began on Wednesday morning, when he and colleagues locked themselves in their office after hearing gunshots.
He told Sky's James Matthew's that a terrorist attempted to entice the workers out of the room, with a friendly greeting.
"At around about 9.30am we heard … a very friendly national voice say 'good morning' in Arabic, and we're certain that was the terrorists coming in and trying to lull people into coming out friendly.
"That was the first moment that you thought 'we're in big trouble here'."
For the next nine hours they could hear sporadic gunfire, which stopped at about 11pm.
When the sound of loud gunfire resumed, he feared the worst.
"We just assumed we were surrounded, and (the terrorists) were waiting, just going round and gathering people up."
Along with three other workers, he decided to move to another room where they closed the blinds, leaving them in total darkness for three days.
Eventually, Algerian employees in another room convinced them that no-one was coming to get them, and they cut the fence and made their daring break for it.
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