Although the majority of the people in the embassy were captured, three managed to escape; two by climbing out of a ground-floor window and the third by climbing across a first-floor (second-floor in American dialect) parapet to the Ethiopian Embassy next door.
Meskipun sebagian besar orang-orang di kedutaan ditangkap, tiga berhasil melarikan diri—dua dengan memanjat keluar dari tanah-lantai jendela dan ketiga dengan memanjat pembatas lantai pertama dengan Kedutaan Ethiopia di sebelah.