The story of firing in Australia in the words of eyewitnesses.
Jagran News Network, New Delhi. Eyewitnesses have described the attack on Sydney's Bondi Beach in Australia. A passerby enjoying a drink on a popular Sydney beach said he initially thought the gunshots were firecrackers.
"We were having a normal Sunday and what we heard sounded like firecrackers," he told 9News. An eyewitness said: "The beach was completely packed. Then a lot of firecrackers started going off. Then suddenly we saw that thousands of people were running. So we all went inside, hid in the toilets. We stayed there for maybe 20 minutes, then came out. Then we saw thousands of people again running towards us on the road, so we hid again and locked ourselves in.”
'Run, it's a gun'
Macleay Bondi restaurant owner Andy Anthony said he arrived shortly after the shooting. His employees and customers heard the gunshots and ran away. Bondi resident journalist Amelia Ballinger was at a restaurant near the beach when she heard gunshots.
He said, "I told my friend who was with me, 'Run, it's a gun.' Even when we were running, the sound of bullets could be heard.
According to news agency AP, 32-year-old Melbourne resident Lachlan Moran was waiting for his family when he heard gunshots. He dropped the beer he was holding for his brother and started running. He ran as fast as he could. He heard gunshots intermittently for about five minutes.
People ran away leaving slippers behind
Grace and her partner Joel Sergeant, also from Melbourne, said they were in their hotel room when they heard a loud noise and looked out their window to see people running on the street. The sound of the gun was very loud and more than 50 bullets must have been fired.
“We all got scared and started running,” Marcos Carvalho, 38, said, according to Reuters. So we left everything there, like slippers etc. He also heard the sound of 40-50 bullets being fired.
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