ISIL claimed on Saturday a series of coordinated attacks by suicide bombers and gunmen in Paris that killed at least 128 people

The Takfiri group, ISIL (so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant) claimed on Saturday a series of coordinated attacks by suicide bombers and gunmen in Paris that killed at least 128 people at a concert hall, restaurants and the national sports stadium.

In a statement issued online on Saturday morning, ISIL said that "eight brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying assault rifles" conducted a "blessed attack on... Crusader France."

The death toll of 128 does not include the eight attackers, the first suicide bombers to strike in France.

The assault also left at least 250 wounded, 100 of them seriously.