Gunmen have opened fire in several places in the French capital, Paris, causing several casualties, French media report.
At least one man opened fire with an automatic gun at the Cambodge restaurant in the 11th district.
Liberation newspaper reports four deaths. It also reports shootings near the Bataclan arts centre.
An explosion is also reported to have targeted a bar near Stade de France, where France were hosting Germany.
Reports say President Francois Hollande was watching the match and has been evacuated.
A BBC journalist at the Cambodge restaurant says he can see 10 people on the road either dead or seriously injured.
He says police have now arrived.
Shooting is said to be continuing. BBC
At least 60 people have been taken hostage at a concert hall in Paris, local media reports citing police. The hostage situation comes amid chaos caused by shootings and an explosion that killed at least 26 people in the center of the French capital.
The concert hall is the latest of four locations targeted by attackers, in the neighboring 11 district.
Very sad but… their govt is directly to blame for the events that are unfolding daily in Libya, Syria and the larger francophone west africa states like Mali, Niger! Na bado, it’s just a matter of time before the so called Merkel immigrants begin feeling dis-enfranchised and sabotaging host countries! can you believe it that to date Germany has already taken 0.8 M immigrants…
So, if you go to an Islamic country and you are forced not to drink, should you attack innocent civilians and kill them indiscriminately? Warped thinking and it seems you are a terrorist sympathizer.
What is happening is not right. Those terrorists should go for politicians and other policy makers instead of killing people who are minding their own business. And some of those killed might be of North/West African descent.
There are significant numbers of French people who are first, second or third generation immigrants from North and West Africa and many of them happen to be Muslim.
That’s what makes it sad and I did not say that it was right. just stated the facts… Just the other day IS exploded a whole plane load of people, and you could almost sense veiled jubilation from the western allies who did not come out strongly against this act. I think this is kind of hypocritical.
My friend German Intelligence is far Superior To France’s, UK’s MI6 and all of European Nations combined. They cannot even attempt Germany because it’s the headquarters of ***************
Punguza miraa kijana. Jaribu sukuma wiki. Hizi ni castles tupu umetujengea hapa…Ati IS fears Germany sijui juu ni HQ ya hizo stars umeweka hapo. What you seemingly dnt understand is that these organizations work through separate independent cells that are ready to die as ‘matyrs’. That makes it a very delicate and complicated situation- even for the Germans