Terrorism in Paris

The victims

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• 130 people were killed in the brutal attacks

• 89 perished during a hostage situation in the Bataclan during an Eagles of Death Metal concert

• 352 were injured

• 99 were critically injured
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  The attacks

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• There were seven attacks by at least seven terrorists, it is thought.

• All seven of the terrorists were wearing suicide vests.

• The first attacks happened at 9.20pm, four miles apart.

• The third attack happened at the Right Bank area of central Paris, where 15 people were gunned down and killed while they were eating and drinking in restaurants and bars.

• At the Casa Nostra pizzeria on Rue de la Fontaine au Roi, at least five people were shot and killed.

• At least 19 people were killed at an attack in La Belle Equipe bar in Rue de Charonne after the bar was sprayed with bullets at around 9:35pm.

• The sixth attack was at the Bataclan at around 9:50pm. The siege lasted two hours and forty minutes.

• Two of the terrorists blew up their explosive belts as police arrived on the scene at around 12:30am.

• There was a third blast near the Stade de France - and although it terrified spectators, no one is thought to have been killed during the seventh and final attack.
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• The first explosion went off near the Stade de France, where president Francois Hollande was at a football match between France and Germany. One person was killed in the blast. The body of a terrorist was found at the scene wearing a suicide belt filled with shrapnel.
  
  
  
  

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