153 people confirmed dead in Paris attacks
France has declared a state of emergency and closed its borders after at least 153 people were killed in 6 terror attacks in Paris.
On a night when thousands of Paris residents and tourists were reveling and fans were enjoying a soccer match between France and world champion Germany, horror struck in an unprecedented manner.
Terrorists — some with AK-47s, some reportedly with bombs strapped to them — attacked sites throughout the French capital and at the stadium where the soccer match was underway.
Scores were killed in the coordinated attacks late Friday, leaving a nation in mourning and the world in shock.
Paris Prosecutor spokeswoman Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre said eight extremists are dead after the attacks.
Seven of them were killed in suicide bombings.
Over 150 people were killed in the Paris and Saint-Denis shootings and bombings, French officials said. Saint-Denis is home to the national stadium where the soccer match was being played.
The worst carnage occurred at Bataclan, with at least 112 left dead.
A journalist who was at a rock concert there escaped and told CNN: “We lied down on the floor not to get hurt. It was a huge panic. The terrorists shot at us for 10 to 15 minutes. It was a bloodbath.”
Julien Pearce didn’t hear the attackers speak, but he said one friend who escaped heard them talk about Iraq and Syria.
Later, he said the men were speaking French. Two men dressed in black started shooting and after wounded people fell to the floor, the gunmen shot them again, execution-style, he said.
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