France is waking in shock after a night of nightmare, reads the headline on Le Monde’s website this morning. One of the paper’s own reporters, Daniel Psenny, was shot in the arm as he tried to help people escaping the Bataclan. The video he has posted of people running away from gunfire, some of them pleading for help as he shouts ‘what has happened?’ is horrifying.
Images de la fusillade au Bataclan by lemondefr
This morning we believe at least 128 people are dead and 180 injured, with 99 in a critical condition. Eight of the attackers are dead, of which seven are believed to have been suicide bombers. Francois Hollande has blamed Isil and described it as an “act of war”
There were three explosions in Saint-Denis and at the Stade de France, and attacks in rue de la Fontaine au Roi, rue de Bichat, boulevard Voltaire, rue de Charonne and at the Bataclan, which has recorded the largest death toll of 80.
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