Ah! Crisis is the one thing I pray not to encounter again. I can relate to your story but it was too risky to have continued the journey either way. Thank God for the intervention of those militants to calm the storm. If not , it would have been a different story entirely.
It is a risk I took that I blamed myself. When I explained to my siblings, they blamed me for it. I never summoned the courage to tell my mum ever since. I keep on thanking God for surviving the scene.