‘They were blindly shooting at the crowd,’ says eyewitness to Paris theater attack

Eyewitnesses describe carnage at the Bataclan theater in Paris where a number of being were killed and at least 100 are said to be held hostage.

“Two to three people not wearing face masks went into the concert hall” and opened fire, said an eyewitness quoted on France 24 TV.

“They reloaded two or three times,” the witness said.

Julien Pierce, a journalist from Europe1 radio, who was inside the theater says that “very young” non-masked people entered the theater and started “blindly shooting at the crowd.”, according to Reuters.

He said the shooting lasted for 12-15 minutes straight.

“It was extremely violent and there was a wave of panic. Everyone ran toward the stage,” Pierce says, adding that he saw at least 10 bodies lying in pools of blood as he escaped through an emergency exit.