PICTURES FROM PARIS TERROR ATTACK,DEATH TOLL RISES TO 120


• At least 120 people are feared to have been killed in a series of devastating attacks across Paris on Friday evening.
• Eight attackers also died, police say, seven of them by detonating explosive suicide 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 suicide 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.
Explosions can be heard alongside flashes of light as police enter the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Friday night.
• 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.

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Chris Kehinde Nwandu is the Editor In Chief of CKNNEWS || He is a Law graduate and an Alumnus of Lagos State University, Lead City University Ibadan and Nigerian Institute Of Journalism || With over 2 decades practice in Journalism, PR and Advertising, he is a member of several Professional bodies within and outside Nigeria || Member: Institute Of Chartered Arbitrators ( UK ) || Member : Institute of Chartered Mediators And Conciliation || Member : Nigerian Institute Of Public Relations || Member : Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria || Fellow : Institute of Personality Development And Customer Relationship Management || Member and Chairman Board Of Trustees: Guild Of Professional Bloggers of Nigeria

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