Paris terror attacks: Everything we know so far

EVERYTHING we know about the co-ordinated terror attacks that took place in various locations throughout the City last night.

A Briton has been confirmed dead and officials fear that a “handful” of people from the UK may also have lost their lives in the atrocities. A Foreign Office spokeswoman confirmed the death of a British national and said next of kin had been informed. But a Government source indicated the British death toll was expected to rise. Gunmen targeted bars and restaurants in the 10th and 11th arrondissements of central Paris. 89 people were killed at the Bataclan concert hall, where gunmen are said to have opened fire indiscriminately on the crowd and held hundreds of people hostage. Police stormed the building, but attackers blew themselves up with suicide vests. Two suicide attacks and a bombing took place at the Stade de France stadium, just north of the city, where Mr Hollande was among thousands of football fans watching the national side play a friendly football match against Germany. A Syrian passport has been found on the body of one of the stadium suicide bombers, police officials said.

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many as 18 people died when the terrace of La Belle Equipe was sprayed with gunfire, while around 14 people were killed at Le Carillon bar-cafe. There were also shootings at the nearby Cambodian restaurant Le Petit Cambodge and the La Casa Nostra pizzeria. The Islamic State (IS) terror group has claimed responsibility for the bomb and gun attacks in the French capital which killed at least 127 people and left around 180 or more wounded, 80 critically. A manhunt is under way for accomplices of the gunmen. France’s president Francois Hollande called the attacks an “act of war” carried out by a “terrorist army”. The attacks were “prepared, organised and planned from abroad, he said, with complicity from within the country”. He promised a “pitiless” response to the”absolute barbarity”. Prime Minister David Cameron has chaired a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergency committee, and police at ports and major events in the UK have been strengthened. He warned “we must be prepared for a number of British casualties” from the Paris atrocity as he condemned the “brutal and callous murderers”. A state of emergency has been declared in France after the country’s worst night of violence since the Second World War. Around 1,500 extra troops have been deployed across the country, police leave has been cancelled and border controls have been imposed. Schools and other public facilities are closed, and all public demonstrations in the Paris region have been banned until Thursday Police Scotland deputy chief constable Iain Livingstone issued a statement: “Our thoughtsare with everyone affected by the terrible events overnight in Paris. Police Scotland continue to monitor the situation in the French capital. I would like to reassure our diverse communities across Scotland that the threat level in the UK has not changed and remains at severe, which means that an attack is likely and may occur without warning. I must stress, however, that at present there is no specific intelligence regarding any planned attack, but we all need to remain vigilant. I would urge everyone to remain alert, and if you see something that concerns you, please report this to us.”