Manilla, Philippines ? Neither of the hostages killed during a blood-soaked rescue attempt Friday in the Philippines appeared to have been executed by their captors, according to the sole surviving captive, but rather died in a hail of gunfire between government troops and the Muslim extremists.

Missionary Gracia Burnham told family members in Kansas on Saturday that the men holding her, her husband, Martin, and Filipina nurse Deborah Yap didn’t seem intentionally to shoot the hostages, who had been held for more than a year.

Martin Burnham and Yap were killed and Gracia was wounded in the rescue attempt by Philippine army commandos.

“We didn’t understand from her story that there had been any executions,” Teresa Burnham, Martin’s sister, said in an interview in Rose Hill, Kan., after talking by phone with Gracia. “That wasn’t what happened, she told us. They were caught in the cross-fire.”