Isobel Bowdery. Photo / Facebook
A woman who survived the massacre inside the Bataclan Theatre has described playing dead for up to an hour as the gunmen circled them "like vultures'' shooting anyone who moved.
In a harrowing post on Facebook, 22-year-old Isobel Bowdery described how she held her breath at times and thought about
about her loved ones as she lay among the dead.
"Dozens of people were shot right in front of me. Pools of blood filled the floor. Cries of grown men who held their girlfriends' dead bodies pierced the small music venue.
"Shocked and alone, I pretended to be dead for over an hour, lying among people who could see their loved ones motionless. Holding my breath and trying to not move, not cry - not giving those men the fear they longed to see,'' she wrote.
"This world is cruel and acts like this are supposed to highlight the depravity of humans. The images of those men circling us like vultures will haunt me for the rest of my life. The way they meticulously aimed at [and] shot people around the standing area I was in the centre of without any consideration for human life. It didn't feel real.''
