Still it goes on:
Paris 'bloodbath' kills at least 1601:33 pm, Saturday, 14 November 2015
More than 120 people have been killed in a mass hostage-taking at a Paris concert hall, while another 40 are feared dead, after a series of bombings and shootings across the French capital.
Police say around 120 people were killed at the Bataclan music venue in eastern Paris alone, with reports the armed attackers shot dead concert-goers one by one before security forces stormed the building.
One witness said an attacker had earlier yelled 'Allahu akbar' ('God is great') and fired into the crowd at the concert given by US rock band Eagles of Death Metal.
Local police officials say at least two alleged jihadists blew themselves up with suicide belts when security forces stormed the building.
It was one of a series of attacks at seven locations across Paris in an unprecedented night of carnage, in a city that is still recovering from jihadist attacks in January.
French media reported that five suspected attackers in total had been 'neutralized' across Paris.
The Bataclan lies just 200 metres from the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine, which was one of the targets of those attacks.
In addition to the carnage at the concert hall, at least five people were also killed in three explosions near the Stade de France national stadium, were France was playing Germany in an international football match.
One of the explosions was caused by a suicide bomber, witnesses said.
President Francois Hollande was attending the match and had to be hastily evacuated.
A Cambodian restaurant near the concert hall was also attacked, with further deaths reported.' Terrorist attacks of an unprecedented level are under way across the Paris region,' Hollande said in an emotional televised message.'It's a horror,' he said.
Hollande declared a state of emergency across the entire country and cancelled his trip to the G20 summit which was due to take place in Turkey at the weekend.
An additional 1500 soldiers have been deployed to Paris, the presidency said.
The focus of the attacks was the Bataclan.
Armed police eventually stormed the venue just before midnight, accompanied by a series of explosions.' I saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor and people were very badly injured, gunshot wounds,' Julien Pierce, a witness at the Bataclan, told Europe 1 radio.' Some of them were dead. Some of them were very badly wounded, but it was a bloodbath.'
At the Stade de France, spectators flooded the pitch as news of the attacks spread before organisers started an evacuation.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, called for residents to stay at home.' We heard gunfire, 30 seconds of fire, it was interminable, we thought it was fireworks,' said Pierre Montfort, who lives near the Cambodian restaurant.' Everyone was on the floor, no one moved,' said another eyewitness, who had been at the Petit Cambodge restaurant.'
A girl was carried by a young man in his arms. She appeared to be dead.'
The toll 'will be much heavier' than the initial confirmed deaths, a security source said.Camille, 25, said: 'My sister is in the Bataclan. I phoned her. She said they opened fire. And then she hung up.'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Union chief Jean-Claude Juncker said they were 'deeply shocked' by the attacks. France has been on high alert since the attacks in January against Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket that left 17 dead.
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