UPDATE: Terrorists Kill At Least 160 in Paris; Worst Attack in West Since 9/11

Bodies litter the streets of a Paris alley after a string of terror attacks in the French capital which led President Francois Hollande to declare a national state of emergency (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)

Terrorists killed at least 160 people in Paris on Friday, most of them inside a music theater, in the deadliest attack on a Western city since 9/11. More than 100 people were killed in the Bataclan theater after four terrorists detonated explosive vests around 12:30 a.m. French police raided the concert venue two hours after terrorists took hostages.

A concertgoer told CNN that two terrorists entered the theater and began firing randomly at people for ten minutes.

“They didn’t shout anything. They didn’t say anything,” Julien Pearce said. “They were in masks and wearing black clothes and they were shooting at people on the floor, executing them.”

The Daily Beast report continues:

“There were two or three individuals—two for sure—who... started pulling blind with automatic weapons, one with a Kalashnikov,” one witness told Le Monde. “It lasted at least 10, 15 minutes. They reloaded, they had all the time he needed. They charged three or four times... They fired pointing down with the butt on the shoulder... When the shooting stopped we took advantage of the lull to take the emergency exit, and there we saw lots of people on the street that were covered in blood, who had gunshot wounds.”

“I lay against the sound console,” a second witness told the paper. “Then 20-30 bullets were fired, they fired randomly. I saw assault rifles. I stepped on the body, there was blood. In the street there were dead.”

Two suicide bombers attacked outside the Stade de France as France and Germany played an international friendly

The wave of attacks began at the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris’s 10th arrondissement on Friday evening.

Almost simultaneously, two suicide bombers attacked outside the Stade de France, just north of Paris, where France and Germany were playing in a soccer match. At least three people were reportedly killed and 80,000 evacuated.

Gunmen also attacked a restaurant in the 10th arrondissement, killing 14. Another dozen were cut down by gunmen at a nearby bar.

An injured man escorted by French police (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)

Eyewitnesses described bodies lying dead in the street in what U.S. officials are already suggesting is another coordinated series of terrorist attacks—the worst in the French capital since the Charlie Hebdo shooting, which was followed a day later by an ISIS-inspired shooting at a kosher market.

French President François Hollande made a statement at the Bataclan following the raid.

“We will continue the fight,” he said, “it will be pitiless.”

Hollande also issued an emergency decree tightening France’s borders, restricting travel internally, and mobilizing thousands of troops to be deployed in the Paris region. 

President Francois Hollande declares a national state of emergency and closes the country’s borders

The French cabinet has authorized authorities to temporarily close places of public assembly, impose house arrest on anyone considered dangerous, confiscate weapons, and conduct searches with more leeway. All Paris residents have been ordered to stay indoors for the first time since 1944.

A senior U.S. official says there are “no specific credible threats to the homeland” at this time. 

The attack is the deadliest terrorist attack on a Western city since Sept. 11, 2001, according to Intelcenter, a jihadist-monitoring site. The Paris attack is also only the 28th terrorist attack to kill more than 100 people since 2001.

Several gunman are still reportedly on the loose. It is not known who they are or what terrorist group, if any, they are associated with.