How ELEVEN friends were fiercely gunned down side by side at Paris eatery

A group of 11 friends and colleagues were brutally wiped out in one fell swoop when two ISIS gunmen unleashed a hail of bullets at the La Belle Equipe café on Friday night.

They had gathered together for the 35th birthday party of a waitress called Houda Saadi, who worked at the nearby Café des Anges – meaning Café of Angels.

The Tunisian woman was joined by her 36-year-old sister Halima, a mother of two young boys, and her two brothers Khaled and Bashir.

Both Houda and Halima were slaughtered in the gunfire, and their brothers, who had miraculously survived unharmed, fought desperately to save their lives on the blood-smeared floor of the café.

Karim, 38, a father-of-two also of Tunisian descent, also rushed to help one of the sisters in her final moments.

'I knelt in the blood and held her, saying, ça ça, ça va, don't be afraid,' he told MailOnline.

'Her breathing was rattling, as if she was snoring, and I don't know if she saw me. There was nothing anybody could do.'

Khaled, who also worked at the Café des Anges, began giving one of his sisters CPR but his attempts were in vain.

One of the sisters passed away on the floor of the café while the other, who had been shot in the head, died later in hospital. See more photos after the cut...