Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - At least 60 people were killed and 60 injured as multiple shootings, explosions and a 100-person hostage crisis in seven seperate attacks which engulfed the French capital Paris late Friday.

The country's borders have been closed and a state of emergency across the nation has been enacted.

Additionally, the army has been deployed around the French capital, French President Francios Hollande said in an address made late Friday evening, just minutes before midnight.

Police expect the death toll to further increase.

Police said they had exchanged fire with gunmen at the Bataclan concert hall, where around 100 people are believed to be held hostage.

The shooting at the Bataclan began one hour into a rock concert, BFM TV said, adding that one or two people came in and began shooting in the air.

Almost immediately after, Europe 1 radio reported another shooting, at the Central Les Halles shopping mall.

At one of the attacks, at a Paris stadium, footage taken of the game between France and Germany in a Paris stadium appeared to the moment when a bomb went off.

The attacks, whose motive was not immediately clear, came less than a year after radical gunmen killed 17 people in attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket.

French authorities have been on high alert since the January attacks, and the country has been named as a priority target by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants.

Several attacks have been foiled since January.