I took the blood and smeared it with it: The 11-year-old Uvalde survivor says before the congress

An 11-year-old survivor of the shootout in the Uvalde School told the Congress how she escaped by smearing her murdered girlfriend.

Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grader of the Robb primary school in Uvalde, Texas, told of the horror, in which 19 of her classmates and two teachers were shot by an 18-year-old shooter.

In a recorded video message, the busy young girl spoke calmly and vigorously before hearing the congress about weapons.

she said: "We just watched a film and then she [My Teacher] got an email. And then she went to complete the door, and he [The Gunman] was in the hallway, and they looked at each other. And then she went back to the room and told us that we should hide.

"And then we hid behind the teacher desk and hidden behind the backpacks.

"Then he shot onto the small window and then went into the other classroom. There is a door between our classrooms. He went through and shot at my teacher. And told my teacher 'good night' and shot her head.

"Then he shot some of my classmates and the table."

miah said: "When I went to the backpacks, he shot my friend who was next to me. I thought he would come back to the room, so I took her blood and sprayed it over me and just stayed still

"Then I got my teacher's phone and called 911. I told her that we need help."

When asked whether she feels safe at school, she shook her head.

she said: "I don't want it to happen again."

When asked what she wanted to see at her school, she replied: "To have security."

Your statement comes against the background that the congress is exposed to increasing pressure to react to the increasing arms - and especially to mass shootings.

massacre at Miah's school and days earlier in a supermarket in Buffalo in the state of New York shaked the nation and re -ignored the urgent demands for arms security reforms.

miah spoke in front of the House Oversight and Reform Committee in a shattering hearing about gun violence.

The committee heard about survivors and families of victims of the recent mass shootings, including Felix and Kimberly Rubio, the parents of Lexi Rubio, a schoolmate murdered by Miah's.

Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician who took care of several victims in Uvalde, and Zeneta Everhart, the mother of a survivor of the racist amocran, in which 10 blacks died in Buffalo, also spoke.

"I hope that all my colleagues will listen with an open heart when survivors of arms and relatives tell of one of the darkest days of their lives," said Carolyn Maloney, chair of the supervisory authority.

"This hearing is ultimately about saving life, and I hope she will get my colleagues on both sides of the gang to say goodbye to laws that do exactly that."

A cross -party group of senators is working on a close collection of controls that could develop for their first serious attempt to reform weapon regulation for decades