<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Australian fashion designer Pip Edwards has told how she hid under a van as the shooters "circled" during the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/bondi-shooting" rel="" target="_blank" title="Bondi attack"><span>Bondi attack</span></a><span> last night.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Ksubi creative director and P.E. Nation co-founder was at Bondi beach with friends when the shooting started.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-who-are-the-bondi-shooters/b0fdd033-610d-4b47-98fd-25817e98e5df" rel="" target="_blank" title='"The gun man'><span>"The gun man</span></a><span> [sic] fired his first round of shots right behind my girlfriend newand I as we had just passed the bridge were they were standing," Edwards wrote in an Instagram post.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>LIVE UPDATES:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-live-updates-latest-news-headlines/5a9bbb14-ef81-45a3-985d-da6b4062460e" target="_blank"><strong><span>Gunmen were father and son; Sixteen people dead, more injured in Bondi Beach shooting</span></strong></a></div></div><div><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5), 0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px auto;max-width:440px;padding:0;width:99.375%"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DSRB6xgki1k/?img_index=1"></a></blockquote></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She and friend Jess Engels were heading in the direction of the Jewish event the gunmen are believed to have targeted.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They immediately took cover between two parked vans.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The shots continued to fire incessantly, and quite literally as close as two metres away," she wrote.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-pip-edwards-trapped-under-van-shooters-circled/e2609be6-2ff2-4728-9291-93ffc4d345dd" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We had to immediately take refuge under a van and watched the gunman's feet with his gun pace in front of the van right at our heads, using our van as his post."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-who-are-the-bondi-shooters/b0fdd033-610d-4b47-98fd-25817e98e5df" target="_blank"><strong><span>What we know about the two Bondi Beach gunmen</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Edwards claimed both gunmen circled the van shooting at everything until a civillian's shouts drew them away.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She and Engels remained hidden under the van for about 15 minutes until the shooting stopped.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They waited until another friend located them under the van before safely emerging.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I was convulsing with fear, trapped, thinking this was it for us," Edwards wrote.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I cannot comprehend nor compute it at all."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-witness-craig-cobb-exclusive/281a80e7-62b5-4578-ab94-1894b7613469" target="_blank"><strong><span>'Daddy, what is that?': Family forced to run for their lives as Bondi shooting began</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Edwards said in the caption of her post that it would be her only comment on the shooting.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Engels posted to her own Instagram stories asking for privacy.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She added that she and Edwards tried to help others hide but that they "did not make it".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>If you have been impacted by the terror attack in Bondi there is support available.</span></strong></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>To 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