Paris Attacks: Survivors Share Their Stories
Staff Reporter | | Nov 15, 2015 07:48 AM EST |
(Photo : Photo by Antoine Antoniol/Getty Images) Survivors sit on a bus after gunfire in the Bataclan concert hall on November 13, 2015 in Paris, France.
Survivors of the Friday night terror attacks in Paris have shared their horrifying stories with the media.
Two of the survivors, French couple Benjamin and Celia Vial, were at a concert in Bataclan Theater to watch the Eagle of Death Metals perform when three attackers opened fire on the crowd. The theater s considered the epicenter of the attacks.
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According to the ABC News, the couple hid among the corpses, covered in blood.
"I didn't feel fear or anything," Benjamin Vial told news station. "I thought my time had come. I was lying on the floor and I felt that the next bullet would be for me."
The couple recalled to ABC News how they tried to escape as soon as the place got quiet. But as soon as they stood up, gunshots started to rain so they dropped back down. Finally, the couple heard a policeman telling them to come toward him. They said dead bodies laid everywhere as they made their way out.
"There were dead people lying on the stairs. ... We understood this is how the terrorists [got] in - shooting the security guards and people selling tickets and things," Benjamin Vial said to ABC News.
In another report by CBS News, a man shared how he survived when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside of the stadium where a friendly soccer match between France and Germany was taking place. The man said he was just crossing the street when the explosion happened.
"It just exploded in front of me," the man told the CBS News. "Everything went to pieces."
According to the man, his phone saved him as a piece of shrapnel that flew towards him hit the device.
The same news station reported about a Tunisian surgeon named Bernabed Moncef, who was at a restaurant watching the same soccer match when the restaurant was attacked.
"I saw all these men running in all directions," Moncef told CBS News. "People just in front here, under the table, and people shoot ... and it's horrible. It's like war. What crazy?"
According to NBC News, the death toll from the attack has been raised to 129 and 352 injured. ISIS has claimed responsibility to the attacks. France's President Francois Hollande, who said the attacks was "act of war", has vows a "merciless" response.
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