Even as the country tries to come to terms following through death of at least 21 people, one man, Abdullahi Ugello, all everything to thank God for after a narrow escape.

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In a video captured minutes to explosion outside the DusitD2 Hotel complex, Mr Ugello, a construction supervisor within the same building, is seen walking past a suspected terroris who blew himself seconds later.

And the father of four, who lives in Kawangware estate, at some point seems hesitant when crossing by the suicide bomber but he minds his business and jumps over to a nearby restaurant.

"I don’t feel hungry, neither do I have sleep. The sight and the thought of the attacks are so real in my mind, it shook me,” he says when Saturday Standard caught up with him at his residence in Kawangware.

In the footage captured at 15.06pm, Abdullahi swaggers past the terrorist dressed in black and seemingly on phone. He then throws a gaze on him then leaps into Secret Garden Hotel.

“When I passed him, I got a chilly feeling, not that I suspected anything but that funny feeling that scares you,” he said.

“He was so engrossed on his phone and sounded agitated asking, ‘Kwani mko wapi, kwani mko wapi bwana (where are you, where are you guys)’, his left hand was inside his black coat,” Ugello told Saturday Standard.

“His agitated voice is what made me keep an eye on him. He avoided eye contact and sounded like time was not on his side,” he said.

Moments after he settled in restaurant, he would hear an explosion outside which he mistakenly thought was a gas explosion.

Afterwards, he scampered for his safety with other people found in the quagmire to the direction he had used. On his way, he say human limb and that's when he realised that he had passed by a suicide bomber.

Mr Ugello says he has his God to thank for since he had just passed by seconds before. According to him, only God can explain the miraculous escape.