A person is being evacuated after a shooting, outside the Bataclan theater in Paris. A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed over 100 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since the Second World War. Thibault Camus/ AP Photo
A person is being evacuated after a shooting, outside the Bataclan theater in Paris. A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed over 100 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since the Second World War. Thibault Camus/ AP Photo
Spectators spill onto the pitch of the Stade de France stadium after three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the stadium where France were playing Germany in an international football match. Michel Euler/AP Photo
Spectators spill onto the pitch of the Stade de France stadium after three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the stadium where France were playing Germany in an international football match. Michel Euler/AP Photo
Spectators running onto the pitch of the Stade de France stadium amid the chaos and aftermath of suicide bombings outside the venue. Christophe Ena/AP Photo
Spectators running onto the pitch of the Stade de France stadium amid the chaos and aftermath of suicide bombings outside the venue. Christophe Ena/AP Photo
A victim under a blanket lays dead outside the Bataclan theatre in Paris on Nov 13, 2015, as more than 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions across the French capital. Jerome Delay/AP Photo
A victim under a blanket lays dead outside the Bataclan theatre in Paris on Nov 13, 2015, as more than 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions across the French capital. Jerome Delay/AP Photo
Forensic police searching for evidence inside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe at the site of an attack on November 14, 2015 in Paris, the morning after a series of gun attacks occurred across the city. Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Photo
Forensic police searching for evidence inside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe at the site of an attack on November 14, 2015 in Paris, the morning after a series of gun attacks occurred across the city. Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Photo
Emergency workers tending to the injured outside the Bataclan theatre. Thibault Camus/AP Photo
Emergency workers tending to the injured outside the Bataclan theatre. Thibault Camus/AP Photo
French president Francois Hollande, who declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing the country's borders, arrives to visit the site of the the Bataclan theatre after the maasacre. Thibault Camus/AP Photo
French president Francois Hollande, who declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing the country's borders, arrives to visit the site of the the Bataclan theatre after the maasacre. Thibault Camus/AP Photo
Investigators search for clues outside the Stade de France stadium after an explosion and after a friendly soccer match between France and Germany, in Saint Denis, outside Paris, early Saturday Nov 14, 2015. Michel Spingler/ AP Photo
Investigators search for clues outside the Stade de France stadium after an explosion and after a friendly soccer match between France and Germany, in Saint Denis, outside Paris, early Saturday Nov 14, 2015. Michel Spingler/ AP Photo
Victims lay on the pavement outside a Paris restaurant. Thibault Camus/AP Photo
Victims lay on the pavement outside a Paris restaurant. Thibault Camus/AP Photo
French security moving people in the area of Rue Bichat in the 10th arrondissement of the French capital Paris following a string of attacks on November 13, 2015. At least 18 people were killed as multiple shootings and explosions hit Paris, police said. Police also said there was an ongoing hostage crisis in the Bataclan a concert hall in the French capital.Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Photo
French security moving people in the area of Rue Bichat in the 10th arrondissement of the French capital Paris following a string of attacks on November 13, 2015. At least 18 people were killed as multiple shootings and explosions hit Paris, police said. Police also said there was an ongoing hostage crisis in the Bataclan a concert hall in the French capital.Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Photo
A man comforts a woman after spectators poured onto the pitch of the Stade de France stadium after multiple explosions outside. Christophe Ena/AP Photo
A man comforts a woman after spectators poured onto the pitch of the Stade de France stadium after multiple explosions outside. Christophe Ena/AP Photo

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When the attacks were over, at least 120 people were killed and eight attackers were dead – seven of them in suicide explosions, one killed by security forces in the music venue.

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“One mistake people always make is adding extra wasabi. There is no need for this, because it should already be there between the rice and the fish.
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