Paris terror attacks: Over 100 dead, borders shut, state of emergency

By Curt Mills, Curt Mills

Published December 20, 2015

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A series of attacks shook Paris Friday night, leaving the city in chaos and over 100 dead in the largest and deadliest terrorist assault ever on French soil.

Reports from the French capital said multiple attacks, which officials said appeared to be coordinated, took place at a theater, near a soccer stadium, inside a restaurant, and other locations. The Associated Press said French police confirmed two suicide bombings.

President Francois Hollande announced in a live broadcast to the French nation that he had declared a state of emergency and is closing the country's borders so that no perpetrator of what he described as "unprecedented" terror attacks could escape.