Irina Kuts, 54, realised she had to leave her Benghazi home when fear crept in that she could be killed for being a non-Muslim foreigner.
The Ukrainian doctor, who has lived in Libya for 20 years, was one of more than 800 passengers evacuated to Malta yesterday on board a merchant ship.
She had to leave Benghazi with her husband, also a doctor, after the Islamists overran Libya’s second city.
Although the situation in Benghazi has grown calmer since the Islamists took over, Dr Kuts said a different sort of fear crept in, which she had not felt before.
Read more in Times of Malta.