Somalia ? A French security agent kidnapped by insurgents in Somalia last month said he escaped Wednesday while his captors slept, then walked five hours through one of the most dangerous cities in the world to safety at the country’s presidential palace.

Marc Aubriere, who was seized along with another agent in July 14, denied reports that he killed any of his captors during his escape.

“The militants who were holding me treated me well, they were giving me nice food,” he told The Associated Press before boarding a plane to leave Mogadishu. “I was not harmed. There is no one I have killed or injured while I was escaping.”

He said he escaped at midnight when his guards “were tired and sleepy.”

He told France’s RFI radio that he was “using the starlight to guide me … Mogadishu at night is deserted and all the men that you cross paths with are armed. I was fired upon, I ran and hid and luckily they missed me.”