Irishman tells of run for life as the carnage began

Gardai to boost patrols of Jewish centres & events

- 

A YOUNG Irishman who was in a bar on Bondi Beach when the first shots rang out yesterday told how everyone scrambled for their lives as the carnage began.

Josh Campbell, from Greystones, Co Wicklow, was having drinks in Revesis Bar when he said it appeared all hell broke out.

He said they could hear the shots ring out as pandemonium broke out in the pub when punters knocked over tables and chairs as they ducked for cover.

Electrician Josh, who has been in Australia for six years, told this newspaper 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 we're 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."