The wounded are evacuated from around the besieged
Bataclan theatre. (EPA photo)
PARIS - Dozens of people were killed
in multiple attacks
in Paris Friday (early Saturday Thailand time), including
one near the Stade de France sports stadium and another at
a concert venue,
police said.
At least seven separate attacks took
place. Two suicide bombers
were believed involved.
A police official said "at
least 100 dead" are still inside the concert
hall where attackers seized
hostages. The death toll was expected
to rise.
Three suspected jihadists were
killed when police stormed the
venue, the official said.
A blanket curfew (as opposed to a
few streets) has been imposed
in Paris for the first time since Allied Forces
were fighting Nazis
in World War II.
President François Hollande closed
all French borders in response
to the attacks.
It is the first time a state of
emergency has been declared in France
since the Algerian War.
At least 15 of the victims were
killed at the Bataclan concert hall
in eastern Paris, police said, adding that
a hostage crisis was
ongoing at the venue.
ISIS backers have started a Twitter
hashtag in Arabic that translates
to "Paris burns" to celebrate the
attacks. They're also using #FranceUnderAttack.
There also is a video in which an
explosion is heard in the audio
of the French-German soccer match.
A reporter inside a concert hall
escaped, and reported it was a
bloodbath. No police were inside. According to
CNN, hostages
were texting that they are being "killed one by one"
and begging
for a police raid.
Three others were killed in
explosions near the stadium just
north of Paris, where a France-Germany
football match was
taking place.
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Mr Hollande, who was at the match,
headed for crisis talks
with Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Interior Minister
Bernard
Cazeneuve at the interior ministry.
"At least three shootings took
place, possibly four in the Bataclan
area and rue Charonne" in eastern
Paris, a police spokesman said.
The attacks, whose motive was not
immediately clear, came less
than a year after jihadist gunmen killed 17 people
in attacks
on nearby Charlie Hebdo magazine's office and a
Jewish
supermarket.
In similar attacks in 2008 at
Mumbai, extremists killed 166.
French authorities have been on high
alert since the January
attacks, and the country has been named as a priority
target
by Islamic State militants.
Several attacks have been foiled
since January.
Police
secure the area around the Bataclan concert hall after
the shootings. (Reuters
photo)
News,World,Bangkok Post,14 November
2015.
R.I.P. for all victim killed.
Hope Paris in peace soon.
Sincerely Yours.
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