Paris attacks: South Shields man survived Bataclan shootings

A British survivor of one of the attacks in Paris has described how he lay on his girlfriend as people were shot dead around them.

Michael O'Connor from South Tyneside was at the Bataclan concert venue when gunmen opened fire. He said the scene inside the concert venue was "like a slaughterhouse", and he thought he was going to die. So-called Islamic State (IS) has said it carried out a series of attacks which left 129 people dead. Mr O'Connor, from South Shields, said: "People [were] falling all over the place, people screaming and just clawing and running and pushing to get away.

"The attackers, I don't think I heard them saying anything or shouting anything or making any demands, they were just firing indiscriminately into the crowds."

OPINION: The day 13 of november two terrorists they will come in Batacalan with guns and go shooting people. Were in the room doing a concert, killed 129 people. Few survived and this is one history the person who survived. The police not catch the terrorist because there was a shootout and the police kill them.

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