Up to 150 killed as jihadist gunmen blow themselves up at concert and Kalashnikov-wielding terrorist opens fire in restaurant.
As many as 118 people alone were massacred at a concert in the Bataclan theatre following a hostage situation last night that concluded in a suicide attack while another 11 were shot down at a Cambodian restaurant.
While death toll estimates range from 120 to 150, early reports suggest a further 200 people are being treated for injuries, with 80 of them seriously hurt.
Investigators said at least eight attackers were dead by the end of the violence – the bloodiest in Europe since the Madrid train bombings in 2004 – with seven of them having blown themselves up.
Four of the attackers were killed in the concert hall, three by activating their suicide vests while one was shot by police.
Just five miles away, suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Stade de France sports stadium where the French football team was playing Germany while another died in a street in eastern Paris. Other gunmen or accomplices could still be at large.
French police arrested one suspected attacker who claimed to have been recruited by ISIS alongside three other extremists, it has been reported.
Witnesses have been telling of the horror which unfolded inside the Bataclan theatre, where more than 1,000 people were watching rock band Eagles of Death Metal perform.
The told of how AK47 wielding terrorists shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ as they ‘blindly’ opened fire into a crowd of people.
‘It looked like a battlefield, there was blood everywhere, there were bodies everywhere,’ Marc Coupris, 57, told the Guardian.
He added: ‘I was at the far side of the hall when shooting began. There seemed to be at least two gunmen. They shot from the balcony.’
They shot at ‘very young’ people in the violent attack which lasted around 15 minutes, said Julien Pearce, a journalist at Europe 1. The gunmen, who witnesses have described as young men in theirs 20s, reloaded three or four times as they gunned down innocent people at random.
Source: Dailymailuk