Woman shares terrifying account of pretending to be dead during Paris attacks

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PARIS -- It was just a Friday night at a rock show, a survivor of the Paris attacks recalls -- but then the massacre began.

Now, 22-year-old Isobel Bowdery, from Cape Town, South Africa, is sharing her terrifying account of how she survived the shootings at the Bataclan music venue where over 80 people were slaughtered by terrorists.

The rampage was just one of several throughout the city of Paris where over 100 people lost their lives.

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So she did the only thing she could think of -- she pretended to be dead.


Bowdery continues with describing what she saw inside the venue -- something she says she keeps hoping will be only a nightmare and not reality.


Then she sheds light on the heroes of the night -- the strangers who comforted each other and the friend who bought her new clothes she wouldn't have to continue wearing her bloody shirt.


Bowdery concludes with a heart-wrenching apology to the ones whose loved ones didn't survive. And how they will never be forgotten.


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