French radio reporter
Julien Pearce was inside the Bataclan theater when gunmen entered. Two men
dressed in black started shooting what he described as AK-47s, and after
wounded people fell to the floor, the two gunmen shot them again,
execution-style, he said.
The two men didn't wear masks and didn't say
anything.
The gunfire lasted 10 to 15 minutes, sending the crowd inside the
small concert hall into a screaming panic, said Pearce, who escaped. He said he
saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor.
One of the explosions at
the Stade de France outside Paris appears to be a suicide bombing, a Western
intelligence source receiving direct intelligence from the scene told CNN's Deb
Feyerick. A dismembered body, consistent with the aftermath of an explosion
from that type of device, was found at the scene, the source said.
People are inviting people
off the streets into their apartments, reports Philip Crowther, Washington
correspondent for France 24. They are following Hollande's direction to stay
indoors.
Traffic on several subway
lines has been interrupted following the attacks, the Paris police prefecture
reported.
At this hour, there is no
credible or specific threat in the United States, according to a U.S.
government official.
Dozens of people are
reported dead after a series of what appear to be coordinated attacks across
Paris late Friday.
At least 43 people are
confirmed dead in multiple attacks across Paris, fire-fighters said early
Saturday. CNN affiliate BFMTV reported earlier as many as 60 people had been
killed.
President Francois Hollande
called the events "unprecedented terrorist attacks" and added,
"This is a horror." In a series of tweets, he said, "Faced with
terror, this is a nation that knows how to defend itself, how to mobilize its
forces and once again, knows how to overcome the terrorists."
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