Multiple terror strikes in Paris leaves over 120 dead

Investigating police officers search for clues outside the Stade de France stadium after an explosion and after international friendly soccer match France against Germany, in Saint Denis, outside Paris, early Saturday.

Victims of a shooting attack lay on the pavement outside La Bell Equipe restaurant in Paris on Friday.

Victims walk away outside the Bataclan theater in Paris on Friday. French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing the country's borders.

Investigators said at least eight attackers were dead by the end of last night's violence. More than 500 French fighters are thought to be with Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, according to official figures, while 250 have returned and some 750 expressed a desire to go.

Armed with AK47s and shouting Allahu akbar , four of the group marched into a rock concert at the Bataclan venue in eastern Paris, murdering at least 82 people and taking dozens hostage.

At least eight militants, all wearing suicide vests, brought unprecedented violence to the streets of the French capital, in the bloodiest attacks in Europe since the Madrid train bombings in 2004.

France was in a nationwide state of emergency today after a night of horror in Paris when gunmen sprayed restaurants with bullets, massacred scores of concert goers and launched suicide attacks near the national stadium, killing at least 120 people.