Australian Paris attack survivor Emma Parkinson speaks about Bataclan massacre

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Paris terror attack survivor Emma Parkinson had just been shot inside the Bataclan theatre by one of four armed terrorists who had stormed the building.

As the wounded Australian ran for her life, she recalled: "There was no one that didn't have blood on them. Everyone was covered. I'm just seeing people running as fast as they could."

In an exclusive interview to air on 60 Minutes tonight, Ms Parkinson speaks, in confronting detail, of the massacre that saw at least 89 concert-goers perish around her.

Ms Parkinson, from Hobart, was at the Eagles of Death Metal concert and had been dancing just metres from the front of the stage with friends when the shootings began.

Emma Parkinson, 19, the Australian injured in the Paris terror attacks. Credit: 60 Minutes

"I thought someone had fireworks. You know like just little fireworks that you buy at the supermarket. I remember thinking what an idiot. Who does that at a concert?"

According to Channel Nine reporter Ross Coulthart, who interviewed the 19-year-old in Paris last week, the teenager then realised "in a second" that people were shooting at them.

After falling to the floor for several seconds, Ms Parkinson pulled herself back up and gambled on making it out of the concert hall, via a nearby barrier, where she was hit by a bullet that passed clean through her thigh.

"It just sort of came through my head, OK, I've been shot, did it hit anything important? Probably not. Gotta keep going, gotta keep going."

An injured person is evacuated from the Bataclan theatre.Credit: Getty

After fleeing to an adjoining building with other wounded concert-goers, she sat sobbing in complete darkness for two hours while listening to the constant sound of machine gunfire. During that time, she was consumed by the fear that eventually, she and those with her would be found by the killers. "I stopped crying and grabbed the person closest to me and held them," she said.

After surgery on her leg, Ms Parkinson was released from hospital earlier in the week and is due to return to Australia this weekend.

A memorial honouring those killed by terrorists including the 89 killed in the Bataclan attack grows in Paris.Credit: Andrew Meares

60 Minutes executive producer Tom Malone said Ms Parkinson had not profited from her story.

See the full interview on 60 Minutes at 8:10pm Sunday