Mother of bat mitzvah girl recounts horror

The mother of the girl celebrating her bat mitzvah at the synagogue at the time of the attack early Sunday morning, tells Israel’s Channel 2 news when the attack occurred the guests and children were forced to hide in a basement for two hours.

The guests were eventually escorted out under heavy guard through a back door, and put onto buses which took them to a police station, where they stayed until 8 a.m.

She thanks the police and other guards for being “heroes” and worrying about the guests safety even after seeing fellow guard Dan Uzan get shot and killed by the gunman.

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