Paris attacks: At least 118 die in shootings, explosions - CNN.com
Dozens of people are reported dead after what are being called terror attacks across Paris. Police early Saturday freed hostages at a concert hall where 100 people may have died. The attacks seemed to be planned to hit areas where many people would be gathered on a Friday night, officials said. CNN will update this story as information comes in:
[Latest developments, posted at 7:28 p.m. ET]"">•*As many as 100 people were killed in the attack at the Paris concert venue Bataclan, police said Saturday, according to Agence France Presse. President Francois Hollande is on his way to the venue, according to AFP.•
CNN affiliate BFMTV reports that SWAT units stormed the Bataclan concert hall and that the siege is over. Two attackers were killed, a police union said. Police have brought out at least 100 hostages from the concert hall, a CNN producer said; some appear to be wounded.•
Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman told CNN the death toll in the attacks is going to rise significantly. "We are facing an unknown and historic situation in Paris," he said.• At least 43 people are confirmed dead in multiple attacks across Paris, firefighters said earlier.
CNN affiliate BFMTV reported earlier as many as 60 people had been killed. It's unclear whether the total included Bataclan casualties.• Hollande called the events "unprecedented terrorist attacks" and added, "This is a horror." In a tweet, he said, "Faced with terror, this is a nation that knows how to defend itself, how to mobilize its forces and once again, knows how to overcome the terrorists."•
French radio reporter Julien Pearce was inside the Bataclan theater when gunmen entered. Two men dressed in black started shooting what he described as AK-47s, and after wounded people fell to the floor, the two gunmen shot them again, execution-style, he said. The two men didn't wear masks and didn't say anything. The gunfire lasted 10 to 15 minutes, sending the crowd inside the small concert hall into a screaming panic, said Pearce, who escaped. He said he saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor.Witness describes scene inside theater•
One of the explosions at the Stade de France outside Paris appears to be a suicide bombing, a Western intelligence source receiving direct intelligence from the scene told CNN's Deb Feyerick. A dismembered body, consistent with the aftermath of an explosion from that type of device, was found at the scene, the source said.
Dozens of people are reported dead after what are being called terror attacks across Paris. Police early Saturday freed hostages at a concert hall where 100 people may have died. The attacks seemed to be planned to hit areas where many people would be gathered on a Friday night, officials said. CNN will update this story as information comes in:
[Latest developments, posted at 7:28 p.m. ET]"">•*As many as 100 people were killed in the attack at the Paris concert venue Bataclan, police said Saturday, according to Agence France Presse. President Francois Hollande is on his way to the venue, according to AFP.•
CNN affiliate BFMTV reports that SWAT units stormed the Bataclan concert hall and that the siege is over. Two attackers were killed, a police union said. Police have brought out at least 100 hostages from the concert hall, a CNN producer said; some appear to be wounded.•
Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman told CNN the death toll in the attacks is going to rise significantly. "We are facing an unknown and historic situation in Paris," he said.• At least 43 people are confirmed dead in multiple attacks across Paris, firefighters said earlier.
CNN affiliate BFMTV reported earlier as many as 60 people had been killed. It's unclear whether the total included Bataclan casualties.• Hollande called the events "unprecedented terrorist attacks" and added, "This is a horror." In a tweet, he said, "Faced with terror, this is a nation that knows how to defend itself, how to mobilize its forces and once again, knows how to overcome the terrorists."•
French radio reporter Julien Pearce was inside the Bataclan theater when gunmen entered. Two men dressed in black started shooting what he described as AK-47s, and after wounded people fell to the floor, the two gunmen shot them again, execution-style, he said. The two men didn't wear masks and didn't say anything. The gunfire lasted 10 to 15 minutes, sending the crowd inside the small concert hall into a screaming panic, said Pearce, who escaped. He said he saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor.Witness describes scene inside theater•
One of the explosions at the Stade de France outside Paris appears to be a suicide bombing, a Western intelligence source receiving direct intelligence from the scene told CNN's Deb Feyerick. A dismembered body, consistent with the aftermath of an explosion from that type of device, was found at the scene, the source said.
