A helicopter is said to be involved with the police hunt, tracking suspects from the sky.
‘Explosions and gunfire’ reportedly heard in a suburb of Paris, thankfully, turned out to be firecrackers at a nearby wedding.
Meanwhile, a Syrian passport has been found on the body of one of the suicide bombers who targeted France’s national football stadium, police officials in Paris said.
Last night the French capital was rocked by terror attacks, thought to be the work of Islamic State.
Two suicide attacks and a bombing took place at the Stade de France, just north of the capital, where President Francois Hollande was among thousands of fans watching the national side play a friendly against Germany.
Eyewitnesses have described the harrowing moment gunmen opened fire during an Eagles of Death Metal gig at the Bataclan concert hall.
Other countries have lit up their landmarks in the blue, white and red flag of France as a mark of respect for the fallen victims of the attack.
Meanwhile, hospitals in Paris have seen queues of people waiting to give blood in a bid to help an estimated 200 wounded.
The attacks came as foreign ministers from more than a dozen nations gathered in Vienna for talks on a way to resolve the conflict in Syria.
US secretary of state John Kerry and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov condemned the attacks as they began meetings with senior representatives from Iran, Saudi Arabia and other countries with strongly conflicting views on how to end the more than four-year war.
President Hollande said the slaughter of 127 people in Paris was ‘an act of war’.
He has declared a national state of emergency and said the country will have three days of mourning.
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