California rock band in interview describes horror of Paris attack


  • World
  • Thursday, 26 Nov 2015

French President Francois Hollande (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, November 25, 2015. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The co-founder of the California-based rock band Eagles of Death Metal, whose Paris concert was targeted in a deadly attack by militants this month, said in an interview with Vice posted on Wednesday that he came face-to-face with a gunman backstage.

Members of the band, giving their first media interview since the attack in a video on the Vice website, were on stage at the Bataclan concert hall on Nov. 13 when three men with rifles and explosives burst in and attacked, killing 89 people.

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