A young Irishman in a Bondi Beach bar has described the chaos and panic as gunshots rang out nearby.
A young Irishman who was in a bar on Bondi Beach when the first shots rang out today told how everyone scrambled for their lives as the carnage began.
Josh Campbell, from Greystones, Co Wicklow was having a few Saturday drinks in Revesis Bar when he said it appeared that all hell broke out.
He said they could hear the shots ring out as pandemonium broke out in the bar when drinkers knocked over tables and chairs as they ducked for cover.
Electrician Josh, who has been in Australia for six years, told the Irish Mirror that he’s still trying to take in what happened.
He said: “We were in Revesis bar which is just a few minutes walk from where the shooters were and were just listening to a band and the walls are all glass and we could see people in the street running and screaming.
“Incredibly the band kept playing but then they stopped and all we could hear was ‘bang, bang, bang’ and then everyone hit the floor and absolute pandemonium kicked in.
“Everyone was just scrambling around and no one knew what was going on and all we could hear was gunshots and we knew it was close by… around the middle of Bondi Beach.
“There’s a video of the madness in the bar at the time and that’s me in the white T shirt scrambling over the table.”
Josh said the terrified bar staff locked the doors fearing the gunmen would try to get in. He added: “We were locked in and all we could hear was these gunshots and didn’t know where they were coming from.
“We then went upstairs and all the time we could still hear the shooting, it went on for at least seven or eight minutes. It was scary because we didn’t know what was happening. After about 20 minutes we were told we could leave if we wanted but we didn’t know what to do but thought it best to get out of a boozer with glass doors and walls.
“We were then walking up the road and it was surreal…it was just carnage, there were police cars and ambulances everywhere. We didn’t know that it was Jewish people who were being attacked. We were hearing reports that there were two shooters and then three shooters and that one got away so we didn’t know what to do.
“So in the end we just headed home and let everyone know that we were safe.”
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