Three of the attackers blew themselves up, according to French television, and one was shot dead by the police. Molins says at least five attackers in total have been killed. The concert hall is close to the former offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which was the target of a deadly attack by Islamist gunmen in January. A man next to me was shot and he fell to floor. 1th floor. Hurt Bad!…There are survivors inside.
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At first the terrorists are said to have shot people standing by the bar, before spraying the crowd with bullets. It lasted for 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 horrific minutes where everybody was on the floor covering their head (s).
Dina reports that officials in both the US and France say “the sophistication of the attacks give them a few clues as to who committed them, although no group has formally claimed responsibility”.
He said he was near the top of the stage during the incident.
Meanwhile, countries worldwide have beefed up security following Friday’s multiple attacks in Paris that killed at least 140 people and drew strong condemnations from the global community.
The journalist said he took a teenage girl who was bleeding heavily and carried her to a taxi where he told the driver to take her to hospital.
When he spoke with CNN, Pearce said he still had friends inside. The shooters were shooting at random at people who were lying down, everyone was playing dead but it didn’t make any difference for them.
“They had 20 hostages, and we could hear them talking with them”, said Janaszak, who was hiding with several others in the toilet. I was at the far side of the hall when shooting began. They didn’t shout anything. He said: “They didn’t stop firing. They just went on shooting at people ….it was frightful”. What happened was awful.
Pearce: Well, I’ve seen two terrorists from my point of view with ak-47s Kalishnakovs entering the concert room and firing randomly to the crowd.
I mean, it’s not a huge concert room. We heard two big bangs in the first half and then another one that was smaller. 2,000 people were there maximum and it was – it was awful.
An unnamed witness who was in the standing area at the Bataclan rock concert and encountered a gunman before fleeing was quoted by Liberation.
“I was at the back of the bar”.
Eyewitness Ben Grant said he was in a bar with his wife when the gunshots were fired and he had seen six or seven bodies on the ground. It was pretty horrific to be honest… I was at the back of the bar.
Mr O’Connor said he grabbed his girlfriend and rushed to a fire exit but because so many others were doing the same they were not able to get out. I don’t remember what I saw, just lots of injured people.
“All we can hear are sirens, we are waiting to be evacuated from the Boulevard du Calvaire cafe”.
Jérome Boucer, shivering in the cold night wearing a white shirt splattered with the blood of the victims and wounded, told the Guardian: “The concert had started”.
He began filming. Shots can be heard as concertgoers began spilling out into the alleyway below his apartment. “Like, why I am up here dancing and having fun when people are crying over the loss of their loved ones?” “Then the smell of powder started to come in”.
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Dozens of terrified people run for their lives, their screams intermittently drowned out by the sound of rapid gunfire searing through the Parisian night, in dramatic video footage captured by a journalist for the French newspaper Le Monde. Another man we tried to drag to safety into the lobby.
