Present Reports on Paris Terrorist Attack:
It’s unfortunate with the recent terrorist attack in Paris, according
to Vanguard news. The string of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late
Friday presently left more than 158 people dead, in the worst such violence in France’s
history.
The assailants struck at least six different venues, ranging
from the Stade de France football stadium to a pizzeria. Read more and see more pic after the cut
– Bataclan concert hall, 82 dead –
A full house of 1,500 people were packed into the popular
venue in eastern Paris for a concert by the US band Eagles of Death Metal.
About an hour after the band took to the stage, the concert
hall was turned into “a bloodbath” according to a French radio reporter at the
scene.
Black-clad gunmen wielding AK-47s stormed into the hall and
fired calmly and methodically at hundreds of screaming concert-goers.
Fellow radio presenter Pierre Janaszak heard the first shots
and thought it was part of the act.
“But we quickly understood. They were just firing into the
crowd.”
He said he heard an attacker say, “It’s the fault of
Hollande, it’s the fault of your president, he should not have intervened in
Syria.”
Four assailants were killed after police stormed in — three
by activating their suicide vests and a fourth shot dead — but not before they
had killed at least 82 people.
– Stade de France, 4 dead –
Three loud explosions were heard outside France’s national
stadium during the first half of a friendly international football match
between France and Germany.
At least four people died outside the glittering venue which
staged the 1998 World Cup final with several others seriously hurt.
One of the explosions was near a McDonald’s restaurant on
the fringes of the stadium.
At least one of the two explosions in rue Jules-Rimet was a
suicide bomb attack.
French President Francois Hollande, who was watching the
game, was immediately evacuated.
The two sides played on to the end. Afterwards, bewildered
fans poured onto the pitch while waiting for all the exits to be declared
secure. The stadium emptied in a relatively calm atmosphere.
– Rue de Charonne, 18 dead –
A little further east, on Rue de Charonne, 18 people were
killed, with one witness saying a Japanese restaurant and nearby cafe were the
main targets.
“There was blood everywhere,” the witness said.
Another man said he heard shots ring out, in sharp bursts,
for two or three minutes.
“I saw several bloodied bodies on the ground. I don’t know
if they were dead,” he said.
– Rue Alibert, at least 12 dead –
The terrace of a Cambodian restaurant on Rue Alibert in the
10th district, Le Petit Cambodge, was the scene of another attack, which killed
at least 12 people.
“We heard the sound of guns, 30-second bursts. It was
endless. We thought it was fireworks,” Pierre Montfort, a local resident, said.
Florence said she arrived by scooter a minute or so after.
“It was surreal, everyone was on the ground. No one was
moving inside the Petit Cambodge and everyone was on the ground in (the
adjacent) Carillon bar,” she said.
“It was very calm — people didn’t understand what was going
on. A girl was being carried in the arms of a young man. She seemed to be
dead.”
– Rue de la Fontaine au Roi, at least 5 dead –
A few hundred metres (yards) from the Bataclan, the terrace
of the Casa Nostra pizzeria was targeted.
Five people were killed by attackers wielding automatic
rifles, according to witness Mathieu, 35.
“There were at least five dead around me, others in the
road, there was blood everywhere. I was very lucky.”
Another witness said he saw shots being fired from a black
Ford Focus.
– Boulevard Voltaire, 1 dead –
A judicial source said one of the attackers died when he
detonated his suicide vest on Boulevard Voltaire, near the Bataclan.
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