At least 35 reported dead, 100 hostages taken in Paris attacks

Published November 13, 2015 Associated Press



DEVELOPING - The death toll in multiple Paris terror attacks rose to at least 35 late Friday while at least 100 hostages were reported held at Paris Bataclan concert hall, the Associated Press reported.

The attacks, believed to involve two suicide bombers, included a shootout in a Paris restaurant, Petit Cambodge in the 10th arrondisement and an explosion in a bar near a Paris stadium where France and Germany were engaged in a soccer match.

Simultaneous attacks are a trademark of terrorist operations.

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The hostages were taken at the concert hall where the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal was playing.
Eyewitness Ben Grant said he was in a bar with his wife when the gunshots were fired and he had seen six or seven bodies on the ground. He told the BBC: “I was told people in cars had opened fire on the bar.

“There are lots of dead people. It’s pretty horrific to be honest. I was at the back of the bar. I couldn’t see anything. I heard gunshots. People dropped to the ground. We put a table over our heads to protect us."

U.S. Homeland Security Department officials monitoring the attacks in Paris say there is no known, credible threat against the United States.

Terror struck in Paris earlier this year, when two Islamic radical gunmen stormed the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 and wounding 11. The gunmen, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, struck to avenge Muslims for the magazine’s publication of cartoons that they believed mocked the Prophet Mohammed. The brothers were killed two days later after a manhunt was capped when police shot the two in a standoff in Dammartin-en-Goele.

During the dragnet, Amedy Coulibaly, an associate of the pair, attacked a Jewish grocery store in Paris, taking more than a dozen hostage and killing four. Coulibaly had killed a policewoman the day before. Couliably was killed when police stormed the kosher market.

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