Bataclan survivors recall being held hostage as gunmen fired on crowd

Group of 11 were forced to watch killing spree and then used as human shields, trial over Paris attacks hears

Survivors of the 2015 terrorist attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris have described their fear and panic when they were held hostage in a corridor for more than two hours by two gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs and wearing explosive vests.

Three witnesses - one a 23-year-old barman at the time of the attack and two IT workers who were in their 30s - told France's biggest ever criminal trial how they were among 11 people first forced to watch as the gunmen took pleasure in targeting and shooting concertgoers from a balcony, and then taken to a narrow upstairs corridor and used as human shields.