Hobart teen and Paris attack survivor recounts the storming of ISIS militants into the Bataclan theatre, which soon turned to a "bloodbath" and a "slaughterhouse.”

Speaking for the first time at the “60 minutes” conducted by channel nine, young Australian Emma Parkinson thanked a stranger, who protected her, when the ISIS militants began firing.

According to news.com.au., Parkinson said that she was dancing in front of the stage when she heard the first round of firing, which she apparently thought to be fireworks. Immediately she fell to the ground and thought herself to be lucky that she was not shot yet.

She said that militants were shooting kids at point blank range and a boy, in order to protect her, had pushed her head under his body. She doesn’t know if he survived or not, she said.

In the next instance, Parkinson realising that she had to run, tried to make the exit by crossing a barrier at the edge of the stage floor. While several others were making desperate attempts to flee in the same way as her, Parkinson realised that’s when she was shot. The bullet went through her thigh before passing clean through her buttock.

“OK, I’ve been shot, did it hit anything? Probably not. Gotta keep going, gotta keep going,” she said while trying to pull herself and run.

As people shouted and militants kept on firing, she started to run for her life. “Started crying and grabbed the person closest to me and held them,” she added when she managed to get to the stage door. Eventually, Parkinson reached the top floor where she lay, trembling and terrified, for two hours until the police arrived.

She was then carried by the police to the hospital, where she had her surgery done. For now, Parkinson will be headed towards Australia soon and be with her friends and family. She has also reportedly said that this terrific incident has not lessened her love for Paris and she hoped to return in the future.

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