#ParisShooting: Dozens Dead, Hostages Taken Following Explosions, Shooting in Multiple Paris Locations

#ParisShooting: Dozens Dead, Hostages Taken Following Explosions, Shooting in Multiple Paris Locations

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Less than a year following the horrific Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, Paris, France is once again under siege from what looks like a planned, coordinated attack. Here’s what we know thus far:

Photo Credit: Daily Mail
Photo Credit: Daily Mail
  • At least 35 people have reportedly been killed in multiple locations.
  • One hundred hostages have been taken in a nearby “concert hall,” which is better described as a rock-concert club.
  • French President Hollande was in attendance at the soccer game where one of the attacks occurred.
  • At least 25 shots were heard at an area restaurant.
  • At least three explosions and six shootings occurred throughout the city.
  • Grenades were reportedly used.
  • Multiple gunmen are involved, and at least some reportedly still at large.
  • Attackers used “semiautomatic weapons and bullet-proof vests.”
  • At least one of the attackers used a suicide vest inside the restaurant, likely including the stadium.
  • One of the attackers inside the concert hall screamed, in French, “This is for Syria!”
  • A fourth shooting is being reported at an area shopping mall. It’s unclear if the shooting is related.
  • Shooting and explosions were heard at at least three separate locations throughout Paris:

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