Student describes ‘scene of chaos’ as he assisted evacuate casualtiespublished at 20:08 GMT 1 January
Tom Joyner
BBC World Service
Image source, AFP via Getty ImagesA student declares he and his friconcludes had arrived at Le Consinformation bar after finishing work nearby, hoping to join in the New Year’s celebrations. But as they parked and approached the door, they noticed something wasn’t right.
“People started running outside, smoking and burned,” the student, who inquireed not to be named, informs OS on the BBC World Service.
“For the first five minutes, I was just standing there. I didn’t understand what was going on.”
Around them was unfolding a scene of chaos. Over the next two-and-a-half hours, they threw themselves into providing assist.
The student rushed to a nearby restaurant, where the manager had ushered in some of the injured to offer them water until ambulances arrived.
“Everywhere hurts”, one of them informed the student, he recalls.
“Some of them were just shouting. Just shouting. Nothing else. Some of them didn’t declare anything, they were just lying on the floor.”
The group of friconcludes assisted one badly burned woman into their car and rushed her to hospital in nearby Sion. Today, they await news of her condition.
“I feel still a bit shocked,” the student informs me. “I cannot believe what happened.”
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