It began with two loud booms that echoed around the Stade de France where French President Francois Hollande was watching an international football friendly between his nation and Germany. Less than two hours later, a shell-shocked leader had been evacuated to safety and was announcing to the world that his country had been plunged into a "state of emergency". In the deadliest violence to hit Paris since World War II, six clinical, co-ordinated terrorist attacks had claimed the lives of at least 120 people, including 100 hostages trapped inside a theatre. STADE DE FRANCE (three dead): "We heard them, but we thought they were homemade devices or fireworks,"...
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