Australian fashion designer Pip Edwards is speaking out about the moments she believed she might die, caught in the middle of the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

In a harrowing Instagram post shared Monday, Edwards described hiding under a van for 15 minutes as gunmen opened fire on crowds near a Hanukkah celebration on the Bondi grass. The alleged attackers have been identified as Naveed Akram, 24, and his father, Sajid Akram, 50.

“The gunman fired his first round of shots right behind my girlfriend and me as we had just passed the bridge,” Edwards wrote, recalling how the shooting erupted without warning. “We immediately ducked between two parked vans as the shots continued to fire incessantly.”

Edwards said the gunfire was so close she could feel it, estimating she was just two metres from where shots were being fired as she searched desperately for cover.

With no escape, she and her friend slid underneath a van — only to realize the shooters were using it as a tactical position.

“We had to immediately take refuge under a van and watched the gunman’s feet with his gun pace in front of the van right at our heads,” she wrote. “His feet were in front of the van and another gunman’s feet were behind, circling the van.”

Pinned beneath the vehicle, Edwards said she tracked the shooters only by watching their boots as bullets struck nearby cars, including the van shielding her body.

“They shot at everything and everyone; surrounding cars were being hit, including our van,” she wrote. “I was convulsing with fear, trapped, thinking this was it for us.”

As the gunmen moved around the van, Edwards and her friend rolled from side to side beneath it, trying to stay hidden behind the wheels as shots continued to ring out.

“The shots kept firing and we rolled from side to side under the van to hide behind the wheels, as the gunmen’s feet walked around us,” she said. “I was in complete panic.”

The ordeal only ended when the gunmen became distracted by a nearby civilian shouting, drawing them away. When the gunfire finally stopped, a friend named Chris broke through police barriers to find Edwards and pull her to safety.

“At least 15 people were killed,” authorities said, with victims ranging in age from 10 to 87. The attack targeted a Hanukkah event. Sajid Akram, one of the alleged gunmen, was shot and killed at the scene, according to BBC News, Sky News, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Edwards said she is “beyond grateful to have survived,” though she admitted the experience may never fully make sense.

“It’s an experience I can’t comprehend nor will probably fully ever grasp,” she wrote.

Later that day, Edwards shared a photo reuniting with her 19-year-old son inside a car, capturing the quiet aftermath of the violence.

“My boy is home,” she wrote.

For Edwards, survival came down to inches of metal, the darkness beneath a van, and 15 minutes that stretched like a lifetime.