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Graphic Paris video shows people fleeing theatre, injured being dragged along

Paul was one of hundreds who had gone to see a music performance at the Bataclan concert hall on Friday night in Paris.

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Later in the night police stormed the venue. People yelled, screamed and everybody lying on the floor. “Ten horrific minutes where everybody was on the floor covering their head”, he said.

“It was a bloodbath”, Julien Pearce says.

The attacks were the worst in France in modern memory, and brought fresh trauma to a country still reeling from three days of terror in January, when Islamist militants killed 12 people at the offices of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, left four hostages dead at a kosher supermarket, and fatally shot a police officer. It is reported that 14 people died in the attacks at the two restaurants.

Crowds leave the Stade de France where explosions were reported to have detonated outside the stadium during the France vs German friendly match near Paris, November 13, 2015.

Chilling videos have emerged of terrifying moments during the Paris attacks.

Attackers inside Bataclan, where the American band Eagles of Death Metal was performing, were reportedly shooting hostages one-by-one. “The whole band heard the gunshots before they saw anything and stopped playing, hit the deck and kind of went backstage and exited as fast as they could”.

Pearce told CNN that he saw two of the men enter and begin to fire randomly.

While on the ground, Pearce said he saw the faces of a few of the gunmen. They weren’t masked; they knew what they were doing; they were very young. Like a random guy holding a gun, that’s all. They were shouting at people not to move and if they did, they just shot them. “Like if we were birds”.

According to witnesses who spoke to CNN “It lasted at least three minutes”, one witness said. That’s when they realized there were shootings at multiple locations in addition to an explosion, she said.

There were lots of people panicking but it was still quite calm.

“We called the fire department, but they couldn’t evacuate us”.

“We were locked in the bar initially and then I was able to get out because the soul singer gave me a ride home”, Mr Davies said.

No group so far has claimed responsibility for the attacks. “This is a bad ordeal which once again assails us”.

Pierce recounted seeing 20 to 25 bodies on the floor and others very badly injured. I was at the back of the bar.

Pearce said he ran 200 meters with an injured teenage girl to catch a taxi, and told the cabbie to get her to the hospital.

Other people desperate to survive the massacre can be seen clinging to the outside of the building, between the first and second window to hide themselves from the gunmen.

“They are hiding in a few kind of room in the dark and they text me, and they are very afraid, of course, and they are waiting for the police to intervene, but it’s been over two hours now and this is awful”.

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“This is bad”, he said, his voice cracking. They just looked at his ticket.

French Red Cross rescue workers evacuate an injured person near the Bataclan concert hall