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At 9:20 p.m., an explosion boomed through the stadium.
Approximately eight gunmen and suicide bombers launched coordinated attacks in several locations across the city.
The deadliest of the series of attacks happened at 22:00 at a well known concert venue in Boulevard Voltaire in the 11th district, where Californian rock group Eagles of Death Metal was playing where the 1500-seat hall was sold out.
The 23-year-old has been living in Paris for a year and described the panicked scenes following the horrific attacks. I thought she had bump and then we realized it was a bullet in her head and not a bump. “Looking at them would have increased my chances of dying”. Another witness said the gunman screamed in French, “This is for Syria”.
“I didn’t think twice, it was time to escape”, he said.
Shooting, bomb blasts and a hostage situation have left more than 120 people dead and 180 people wounded. She was stretched on the table with her beer next to her. Then I see a guy crying because his wife was dead.
Sheridan wrote that Wilson said the attackers had deliberately singled out handicapped concert-goers for execution.
The French newspaper Le Monde posted video showing many people pouring out of what appear to be emergency entrances to the hall, while gunshots can be heard.
The attackers worked in three synchronized teams, wearing matching suicide vests and carrying the same weapons.
At least 60 people are now believed to be dead following multiple explosions at other locations in the French capital. One woman clings to a second-storey window, trying to get out of the line of fire.
At least a dozen – perhaps as many as 18 – were killed.
One witness, who identified herself as Jasmine, told BFMTV that the attackers announced their motive.
“They said, ‘What you’ve done to Syrians, well, now you’re paying for it, ‘ ” she said. When police finally stormed the concert hall, the attackers blew themselves up.
A French security official said someone had reached out to police in the plaza out of panic, and when officers arrived with weapons drawn, the crowd dispersed in fear.