14/11/2015
Our hearts and thoughts go to the people of france.
What we know so far
At least 120 people are feared to have been killed in a series of devastating attacks across Paris.
Eight attackers also died, police say, seven of them by detonating explosive su***de belts.
Police continue to search for accomplices who might still be at large.
Two hundred people were injured, 80 of them seriously.
Shootings and explosions were reported in six locations across the city, including the Stade de France in northern Paris, where two su***de attacks and a bombing took place as the national team played Germany in a friendly football match.
The majority of victims died after a mass shooting inside the Bataclan concert venue.
Shootings also took place in restaurants and other sites in the centre of the city, detailed here.
Bataclan survivor says attackers were ‘pretty calm’. President François Hollande, who was at the Stade de France at the time of the assaults, said:
We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow.
A state of emergency has been declared across France and security at the country’s borders has been tightened.
Paris residents have been told to stay in their homes and authorities say “all of the city’s amenities”, including schools, universities, museums, libraries, gyms, swimming pools and markets, will close on Saturday.
US president Barack Obama described the atrocities as “an attack on all of humanity”. Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said the attack “appears to have all the hallmarks of a Daesh [Islamic State] exercise”.
Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, has cancelled his official visit to France, due to take place next week, in the wake of the terrorist attacks.
