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“Several others had broken limbs. The smuggler left us here and told us to run in the direction of the lights of Van city. Many of us were fading out of hunger. I fainted.”

She added: “She’s covered in bruises, literally … black”, adding “poor girl can’t walk, she literally fainted in the kitchen in the morning” and “he made her do sit ups all night”.

But Bach fainted 90 minutes later while in the process of being booked.

“They sent him back on the frontline 15 days after the injury and he fainted in the field. He is paralysed now,” he said.

Her white blood cell count was critically high and her blood pressure perilously low — at one point, as Thurman got up to go to the bathroom, she fainted again and hit her head.