Testifying for six hours at the trial of alleged Benghazi attack mastermind Ahmed Abu Khattala on Tuesday, diplomatic security agents Scott Wickland and David Ubben described the last moments of Ambassador Chris Stevens and their own miraculous survival.

“As bodyguard to U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Wickland was the last person to see him and an aide alive as they tried to escape a burning mission villa,” the Washington Post reports. “Wickland also was at the wheel of an armored car evacuating U.S. security personnel that ran a gauntlet of hostile fire to the CIA annex, only to have the attack trail them and mortar rounds kill two more Americans and wound one of Wickland’s close friends just feet away from him on a rooftop.”

CNN relates Wickland’s testimony that he first realized the consulate was in danger when he “heard chanting down the street from the mission, and then calls of ‘Allah Akbar.’” Soon after he got Stevens and Smith to the safe room, he heard gunfire, explosions, and “bloodcurdling screams” over his radio. – READ MORE