Paris Terrorist Attack:At least 122 people were killed and 210 injured across six locations

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Paris Terrorist Attack:Gunmen and bombers attacked a concert hall, restaurants and a sports stadium at six locations across Paris on Friday, killed at least 122 people and more than 210 people were injured. In a deadly rampage, it shaken President Francois Hollande called an abnormal terrorist attack. Four black-clad gunmen wearing suicide vests and wielding AK-47s stormed into the Bataclan venue in eastern Paris shouting “Allahu akbar” and fired calmly and methodically at hundreds of screaming concert-persons.

What you are doing in Syria, you are going to pay for it now,” one of the gunmen shouted, a witness said.

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At least 122 people were killed and 210 injured across six locations around Paris Terrorist Attack

An official said four gunmen systematically killed at least 88 young people attending a rock concert at the Bataclan music hall. Anti-terrorist commandos finally launched an assault on the building. The gunmen exploded bomb belts and dozens of shocked survivors were rescued. At least 122 people were killed and more than 210 injured across six locations around Paris, which is still reeling from jihadist attacks in January.

Around 41 more people were killed in five other attacks in the Paris region, including a plain double suicide bombing outside the national stadium, where Hollande and the German foreign minister were watching a friendly soccer international. and more than 210 people were injured.

Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said as many as five attackers were killed though it was not clear how many there were all together. the bloodiest terrorist attack in Europe since the Madrid train bombings in 2004 with seven of them having blown themselves up.

After being whisked from the soccer stadium near the blasts, Hollande declared a nationwide state of emergency “the first since the end of World War Two” and announced the closure of France’s borders to stop perpetrators escaping. The Paris metro railway was closed and schools, universities and municipal buildings were ordered to stay shut on Saturday. However, some rail and air services are expected to run.

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Toon, a 22-year-old messenger who lives near the Bataclan, was going into the concert hall with two friends at around 10.30 p.m. when he saw three young men dressed in black and armed with machine guns. He stayed outside. One of the gunmen began firing into the crowd. “People were falling like dominoes,” He said he saw people shot in the leg, shoulder and back, with several lying on the floor, apparently dead.

All emergency services were mobilized, police leave was canceled, 1,500 army reinforcements were drafted into the Paris region and hospitals recalled staff to cope with the casualties.

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