Mohamed Gebril calls it a "nightmare," his near death experience just before 1a.m. Tuesday morning,

Gebril says a woman rang the doorbell of his Newmarket home and when he answered the door four men jumped him.

"I kept fighting with them for 15 minutes, for my life. I thought i was going to die," he said.

York regional police got to the scene quickly. Emergency task force officers armed with assault rifles managed to catch and arrest all five suspects involved in what they described as a home invasion.

"These individuals, two of them had firearms," said Const. Blair McQuillan.

Gebril has 12 stitches and plenty of bruises. He says he's never heard of anything like this in Newmarket

Police say they are still investigating the incident.