Summary
Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked busy restaurants, bars and a concert hall at locations around Paris Friday, killing scores of people in what a shaken President Francois Hollande described as an unprecedented terrorist attack.
Police sources said at least 100 people were killed in a concert hall alone, with more than 40 killed in other attacks and at least another 60 wounded in the Paris region.
Hollande said police were launching an assault at one of the attack sites as he spoke.
A Reuters witness heard five explosions outside the Bataclan music hall, where up to 60 people were being held hostage.
France has been on high alert ever since Islamist gunmen attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Kosher supermarket in Paris in January, killing 18 people.
French media reported five more or less simultaneous attacks in mid-evening in central Paris and outside the Stade de France stadium in the suburb of Saint-Denis, north of the city center.
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