DHAKA: A provisional toll from Paris attacks on Friday put the number of dead at 128 while another 99 were in critical condition.
A source at the prosecutor’s office said on Saturday, reports The Jerusalem Post.
Gunmen strapped with suicide bombs attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris on Friday in a deadly rampage that a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack in France.
He said the attacks, carried out by eight gunmen and suicide bombers, were ‘organied and planned from outside’.
The targets included bars, restaurants, a concert and a high-profile football match. IS claimed the attacks.
Hollande has declared three days of national mourning.
He raised the security threat level to its highest point and imposed a nationwide state of emergency. Hospital officials now put the number of injured at 300. Eighty are in a critical condition.
These are the deadliest attacks in peacetime France, and only the fourth time since WW2 that a state of emergency has been imposed. The last time was during a 2005 wave of riots in poor suburbs.
It is the worst atrocity in Europe since the 2004 Madrid bombings, says the BBC.
BDST: 2032 HRS, Nov 14, 2015
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