‘Explosions, Gunfire, Screams': Witnesses Describe Chaos as Paris Attacks Unfolded

As 80,000 people watched an international soccer match at a Paris stadium and as concertgoers packed a venue elsewhere in the city, chaos erupted, NBC News reported.

A blast was heard over the roar of the crowd as France and Germany played a friendly match at the Stade de France.

Alexandre Bims, 18, was entering the stadium when the first blast occurred.

"We thought it was a gas leak, but then we saw people on the floor that were not moving," Bims, 18, told NBC News. "There was a second explosion; we saw someone who lost an arm."

In the Bataclan theater in the 11th arrondissement two or three attackers with automatic weapons "began to fire blindly into the crowd," causing a panic, a Europe 1 journalist who was in the concert hall said.

People dove to the ground and scrambled towards an open door, a witness told France's BFMTV. Eventually they were able to reach the roof, where a man in a nearby apartment let them in through a window. "We stayed there waiting for it to be over. We heard explosions, gunfire, screams," the witness told the network.

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