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Updated 21 Nov, 2015 01:41pm

In pictures: Terror in the heart of Paris

Agencies

PARIS: Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris on Friday, killing at least 120 people in a deadly rampage that a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack.

A Paris city hall official said four gunmen systematically slaughtered at least 87 young people attending a rock concert at the Bataclan music hall. Anti-terrorist commandos eventually launched an assault on the building. The gunmen detonated explosive belts and dozens of shocked survivors were rescued.

A victim lies on the ground covered by a white sheet outside a cafe, in central Paris, on November 13, 2015 following an attack. Over 100 people were killed in an “unprecedented” series of bombings and shootings across the capital. ─AFP
Body of a victim is seen covered, along the sidewalk outside a cafe at the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris.─Reuters

Some 40 more people were killed in five other attacks in the Paris region, the city hall official said, including an apparent double suicide bombing outside the national stadium, where Hollande and the German foreign minister were watching a friendly soccer international. Some 200 people were injured.

People warm up under protective thermal blankets as they walk on a street near the Bataclan concert hall─ Reuters

The coordinated assault came as France, a founder member of the U.S.-led coalition waging air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, was on high alert for terrorist attacks ahead of a global climate conference due to open later this month.

The deadliest attack was on the Bataclan, a popular concert venue where the Californian rock group Eagles of Death Metal was performing.

A man lies on the ground as French police check his identity near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris, France, November 13, 2015. The man was later released after his identity was verified─ Reuters
A couple comforts each other outside the Bataclan concert hall after the shooting in Paris.─AP
Members of a police intervention unit walk near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris. ─AFP
General view of the scene with rescue service personnel working near covered bodies outside a restaurant following shooting incidents in Paris─ Reuters
A person is being evacuated after a shooting, outside the Bataclan theater in Paris.─AP
People hug on the street near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal attacks.─Reuters
A man gestures as he places a candle at a makeshift memorial outside the Consulate General of France to pay tribute to the victims of the terror attack in Paris, in San Francisco, California.─Reuters
An investigating police officer, left, walks behind police officers outside the Stade de France stadium after an explosion and after international friendly soccer match France against Germany.─ AP
A victim under a blanket lays dead outside the Bataclan theater in Paris─ AP
A victim is being evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall after the shooting. ─AP
People are evacuated by bus, near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris.─AFP
People rest on a bench after being evacuated from the Bataclan theater after a shooting in Paris.─ AP
Spectators embrace each other as they stand on the playing field of the Stade de France stadium at the end of a friendly soccer match between France and Germany in Saint Denis, outside Paris. Hundreds made their way to the pitch after explosions were heard nearby. ─AP
UNLV fans observe a moment of silence for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 before UNLV's basketball game against Cal Poly at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.─AP
People stand near candles as hundreds of people gather in downtown Montreal on November 13, 2015, to pay tribute to the victims of the deadly attacks in Paris here
San Francisco City Hall is lit up with blue, white and red, the colors of the French flag, following the Paris terror attacks, in San Francisco, California November 13, 2015─ Reuters
A group of about fifty people, mostly French, gather at Union Square in New York on November 13, 2015, to pay tribute to the victims of the deadly attacks in Paris.─AFP
A woman leaves flowers at a small makeshift memorial outside the consulate of France following the attacks in Paris, in the Manhattan borough of New York November 13, 2015─ Reuters
The Mexican Senate building is illuminated with the red, white and blue colors of the French national flag in solidarity with France on November 13, 2015, in Mexico City.─AFP
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