At least a hundred people have been shot dead inside the Le Bataclan concert hall, according to Agence France-Presse.
Facebook has re-activated the safety feature to allow users in Paris to let their friends know they are safe.
This is on top of the 60 reported dead across Paris in a series of attacks in what experts are calling a “night of terror” on a scale never seen before.
Police are now storming a French theatre Le Bataclan where gunmen held hostages attending a rock concert.
French president Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency, and closed the French borders.
He announced an immediate inquiry into what most experts believe is a gross act of terrorism.
“We don’t know where they are coming from, or who is striking us,” said Mr Hollande. “In such difficult times, I have thoughts for the victims.”
The apparently coordinated gun and bomb assault came as the country, a founder member of the U.S.-led coalition waging air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, was on high alert for terrorist attacks ahead of a global climate conference due to open later this month.
Hollande, who was attending an international soccer match with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier when several explosions took place outside the national stadium, declared a state of emergency in the Paris region and announced the closure of France’s borders to stop perpetrators escaping.
“This is a horror,” the visibly shaken president said in a midnight television address to the nation before chairing an emergency cabinet meeting.
All emergency services were mobilized, police leave was canceled and hospitals recalled staff to cope with the casualties.
Hollande said police were launching an assault at one of the attack sites as he spoke. A Reuters witness heard five explosions outside the Batalla music hall, where up to 60 people were being held hostage.
A second Reuters reporter later said police had completed an operation at the building. BMG TV said two gunmen had been killed.
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