'Bullets were flying over my head': Australians in Mexican nightclub shooting

By Megan Levy
Updated January 17 2017 - 6:09pm, first published 11:11am
People outside the Blue Parrot nightclub after the shooting.  Photo: Por Esto! de Quintana Roo
People outside the Blue Parrot nightclub after the shooting. Photo: Por Esto! de Quintana Roo
A group of Perth friends celebrate in Playa del Carmen in Mexico just hours before the shooting. Photo: Trent Cray, Facebook
A group of Perth friends celebrate in Playa del Carmen in Mexico just hours before the shooting. Photo: Trent Cray, Facebook
Charlie Cohen, pictured back right, and his group of friends from Melbourne are travelling through Central America. Photo: Supplied
Charlie Cohen, pictured back right, and his group of friends from Melbourne are travelling through Central America. Photo: Supplied
Tim Mullen was in the Blue Parrot nightclub at the time of the shooting. Photo: Facebook
Tim Mullen was in the Blue Parrot nightclub at the time of the shooting. Photo: Facebook
A woman is treated by paramedics after being show at the nightclub.  Photo: Por Esto de Quintana Roo/AP
A woman is treated by paramedics after being show at the nightclub. Photo: Por Esto de Quintana Roo/AP

An Australian man has described how he narrowly avoided being shot when a gunman opened fire in a beachside nightclub in Mexico that was packed with hundreds of revellers at the time.