Paris attacks: Stories of horror inside the Bataclan

Four terrorists entered the theater, killed the bouncers and began shooting the patrons, before Paris police finally stormed the site, according to media reports.

“I live on the second floor, and my apartment overlooks the emergency exits from Bataclan”, Psenny told Le Monde.

At first the terrorists are said to have shot people standing by the bar, before spraying the crowd with bullets. In his own account for Le Monde, World said the images he saw that night reminded him of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.

On the Facebook page of the band that was performing, Eagles of Death Metal, a post said it’s unclear where the band and crew are and how they’re doing. They were armed with big guns, I imagine Kalashnikovs, it was a hell of a noise.

“The singer had lifted up his guitar and I turned around and I saw a man with an automatic weapon firing into the air”, one survivor told Le Figaro newspaper. Throughout the video gunshots can be heard and the sounds of terrified people attempting to flee the concert hall.

Clarisse, who was at the venue, said she stayed hidden for several hours under seats at the concert hall.

On the same bloody evening three suicide bombers detonated themselves at two fast restaurants and a brasserie near the Stade de France where France was playing Germany in an worldwide football friendly. “I climbed on the stage and we found an exit”, said Pearce.

Australian expat John Leader was separated from his 12-year-old son Oscar as they made their escape from the theatre where 89 people were murdered on Friday.

Loud bangs and screaming can be heard throughout the almost three-minute clip, which shows three people gripping whatever they can to avoid plunging anywhere up to 40ft to the ground.

“I heard gunshots. People dropped to the ground”.

In one of the most horrific scenes to emerge from the French capital, a desperate woman is seen hanging by her fingertips from a window while others are gunned down as they flee the venue. I saw people on the floor, blood.

“We are just holding our breath and saying prayers for everyone”, she said. Then 20 to 30 shots were fired, they fired randomly.

French President Francois Hollande said it was a “act of war” organised by the Islamic State (IS) militant group.

About 3.30am (local time), the head of Paris police reportedly says all attackers are believed to be dead. Another man we tried to drag to safety into the lobby.