ABC News quotes Paris Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman as saying it is too early to draw conclusions about who is responsible. The BBC reports that attacks took place at the Petit Cambodge restaurant in the 11th district, near the Bataclan arts centre, and near the Stade de France.
A BBC journalist at the Petit Cambodge restaurant says he can see 10 people on the road either dead or seriously injured. He says police have now arrived and sealed off the area. An eyewitness told Liberation he had heard more than 100 rounds being fired at a cafe in rue de Charonne.There are reports of up to six gunmen involved.
French media put the death toll at 60 as of 5:35 p.m. EST;
The New York Times reports that President Hollande was evacuated from the ongoing France-Germany match as explosions could be heard.
It was unclear whether there was a link in any of the violence to terrorism but French media reported that Kalashnikov rifles were involved in the shootings — a favored weapon of militants who have attacked targets in France — and that many rounds were fired. The shootings occurred near the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper where shootings in January traumatized France. Police sirens sounded throughout central Paris on Friday night.