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A shot smashed the wing-mirror and I trod on the accelerator even harder trying to coax a little more speed out ofthe screaming engine. Beside me Priya was quite calm, but I could sense that she was as terrified as I was. She was clinging onto herseat so as not to be thrown on to me as we hurled round bends and comers, and bounced up and down on the rough surface. It was no more than cart track, really. My only thoughtwas to get to a town or village or at least to some sign of humanity — they would never dare shoot us down in cold blood in front of witnesses.

The little van was out of sight now round oneof the bends, but when we cameto an unexpectedly straight part of the lane, I could see it behind us in the driving mirror. Then there was a crash as our rear window exploded, a bullet whistled between our heads, and the windscreen shattered into a thick white fog.

“Knock it out, Priya! For God’s sake, knockit out!” I screamed. Priya was sobbing, choking back fear and with her gloved hands she beat at the windscreen, using her hand bag as a hammer and managed to knock a hole through which I could see the road ahead. The wind blew the broken glass in and my lap and chest were covered withlittle pebbles of glasses. Nowan icy gale whistled through the hole and madeit difficult to see where
we were going. My eyes were watering andit was all I could make out the bendsinthelane.