Paris attacks kill more than 120 people – as it happened

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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.

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.

Paris public prosecutor François Molins said the death toll was at least 120.

His spokeswoman said eight assailants had also died, seven of whom had blown themselves up with explosive belts at various locations, while one had been shot dead by police.

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14 Nov 201500.05 EST

What we know so far

Claire Phipps

• At least 120 people are feared to have been killed in a series of devastating attacks across Paris on Friday evening.
  
• Eight attackers also died, police say, seven of them by detonating explosive suicide belts.
• Police continue to search for accomplices who might still be at large.
  
• Two hundred people were injured, 80 of them seriously.
• Shootings and explosions were reported in six locations across the city, including the Stade de France in northern Paris, where two suicide attacks and a bombing took place as the national team played Germany in a friendly football match.
• The majority of victims died after a mass shooting inside the Bataclan concert venue.
• Shootings also took place in restaurants and other sites in the centre of the city.

• President François Hollande, who was at the Stade de France at the time of the assaults, said:

We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow.

• A state of emergency has been declared across France and security at the country’s borders has been tightened.
• Paris residents have been told to stay in their homes.

This graphic pinpoints the six locations and the latest death tolls at each; these could, of course, change.

Two hundred people have been injured, 80 of them seriously.

This extraordinary clip via France’s iTélé appears to show a phone dented by a bullet – its owner, named here only as Sylvestre, claims it saved his life during the attack at the Stade de France:

Here is the video Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull referred to – the French football fans who, as they were evacuated from the Stade de France, sang the national anthem:

The world’s newspaper front pages have reacted with horror to the unfolding events in Paris: here is a selection from France and beyond.

The Paris prosecutor’s office has confirmed that eight attackers are dead.

Prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre told Associated Press that the eighth attacker was killed by security forces when they raided a concert hall where the assailants had taken hostages.

She said it was possible that there are terrorists still at large.

An update from the prosecutor’s office, which now says eight extremists are dead, seven of them in suicide bombings.

Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is speaking now.

He says the attack “appears to have all the hallmarks of a Daesh exercise”.

(Australia uses Daesh as its term for Islamic State.)

Turnbull lauded the French football fans who, as they were evacuated from the Stade de France, sang the national anthem:

Freedom stands up for itself … in the face of terrorism.

He went on:

What we know about the attack is very limited … what we know at the moment will undoubtedly change.

He said the terrorists kill in the name of god, but theirs is “the work of the devil”.