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Westport Resident Studying In Paris Tells Of 'Chaos' After Attacks

WESTPORT, Conn. — A Westport resident who is studying abroad in Paris is safe after the terror attacks and "hearing a lot of sirens," she said in an interview broadcast on WFSB Channel 3.

Molly Elliot, a Westport resident and Newtown native, gives a first-hand account of the scene in Paris after a terror attack. She is studying abroad as a student at Marist College.

Molly Elliot, a Westport resident and Newtown native, gives a first-hand account of the scene in Paris after a terror attack. She is studying abroad as a student at Marist College.

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"One of the attacks was near me, but all of my Marist colleagues and I are safe," Molly Elliot, a Newtown native, said in the on-air interview.

She is studying abroad as part of a group from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Reports late Friday indicated over 100 people had been killed in separate terror attacks. 

"Reading the reports, they sound pretty scary," she said. 

Elliot and her fellow students live close to the scene of one of the the shootings.

"It's 10 to 15 minutes away walking ... it's very near me," she said. "It's a charming area, It's hard to envision it in such chaos."

Elliot described it as a typically a busy area, filled with people going to restaurants and nightclubs, 

She said Marist officials are making sure the students are all staying inside and keeping them informed about the situation.

"It's unsettling," she said. "I hope that everyone I know is safe."

Watch the full interview here at the WFSB website.

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