One man, who wanted to be known only as B, was spending the evening at the beach when he heard dozens of gunshots ring out.
People were running, screaming. He ran to help and saw two children, aged about five or six, hiding under a car.
“They said, ‘My mum, my mum,’” he said.
He pulled their mother from beneath the car and realised she had been shot twice, in the back of the neck and in her shoulder.
“I had to apply pressure for about 20 minutes,” he said.
The scene at Bondi Beach after the shooting.Credit: Janie Barrett
“Big wounds. I had my fingers in the hole, I applied the pressure. Then paramedics took over. Forty-five minutes later the ambulance arrived.”
“It was like war zone,” he said.
Another man, who wanted to be known only as Abdulla, had been driving down Campbell Parade when he saw two men shooting from the bridge to the beach. He drove into the car park.
“That’s when I saw the first [police] officer who was shot, I ran out and tried to help him,” he said.
The shots were still ringing out as he saw the other man helping the woman under the car.
The children were rushed to the surf club as the two men worked on their mother. She was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital.
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