Paris city has been gripped into tension after terror attacks were reported to have killed more than 150 people. For the second time one of the most favored destinations of the world, Paris has been stricken with terror attacks on Friday night in a series of brutal terrorist attacks at various locations around the city targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots. The current Paris attacks prove out to be the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II.

How It All Started?

As per the reports from the reliable sources it is being said at the local time of 9:45 pm wild shooting in the popular area packed with bars and restaurants had been ascertained. Later within in a few moments outside a stadium where French President François Hollande was watching a soccer game between France and Germany, explosions were reported killing dozens of people. Overlapping in short duration American band’s Bataclan concert venue was rocked with wild shooting again where the assailants taken hostages inside.

Paris Rocked with Serial Blasts and Terror Attacks

At least six terror attacks have been ascertained so far in the city as per the local report among which three of them are claimed to have been most deadly. The assailants took over at least  100 hostages in the Bataclan concert venue where American band American band was playing was playing while it is being said that the band crew members are safe although the it hasn’t been affirmed whether all the work party is safe.

Three serial bombings took place killing dozens of people outside at a bar the Stade de France where thousands of people assembled to watch football match played between France and Germany. Out of these three serial blasts, two were said to be suicide bombings. Following these, an open fire has been carried out by the terror group members at the coffee shops, restaurants Le Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon killing more than 20 people.

Parris Attacks Resembles Mumbai 26/11 Attacks, Know How?

Terror group members who took over 100 hostages at the Bataclan concert venue killed people ruthlessly in the open fire where they are believed to have reloaded their assault rifles at least three times as per the reports from confidential sources. Out of the eight attackers at the Bataclan concert, at least seven are said to be carrying detonated suicide vests. Although so far no terror group across the world has claimed responsibility for the attacks while intelligence sources are suggesting it as the planned attack of ISIS.

After the 2014 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people, the current attacks prove to the deadliest one which has killed these many people. Although this year, Paris had been through another terror attack on January 7 at the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo during which 12 people were killed while it didn’t cause much affright in the people. Both the Mumbai 26/11 and Paris attack seem to be identical which has killed more than killed 166 persons by the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba gunmen’s.

Hijacking fishing trawler, landing on to the Indian soil at nations commercial hub,  ten Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants contrived for the  Mumbai ‘26/11’ attacks. These ten militants got separated into  five groups forming a pair as buddy pairs. They invoked o the world’s very first hybrid terrorist attack in Mumbai as it encompassed all major elements of terror attacks such as open firing at the public gathering (CST terminal, restaurant, hospital, a Jewish centre, five-star hotel), car bombs, hostage taking, etc.

Moto of the terror group was to kill a maximum number of people. Sticking to this all the ten militants who carried AK-47 were attached with two magazines bound together with duct tape to enable rapid reloads. Backpacks of these terrorists contained hundreds of spare bullets, 5-kg Improvised Explosive Device and anti-personnel grenades to kill and severely injure the civilians. The only surviving militant, Ajmal Kasab said, “I finished two-and-a-half magazines. Don’t know how many I killed. I Just kept firing. Zakki (LeT military chief Lakhvi) had told us to keep killing till we were alive” during the investigation of police which straightens out the facts.

An investigation carried out on the Mumbai 26/11 attacks stated that from a command and control room set up in the port city of Karachi, the master mind behind the attacks Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi and his fellow mates directed the gunmen’s from there. Mumbai 26/11 attacks were revolutionized from the March 1975 seaborne landing on Tel Aviv beach and the hostage of the Savoy Hotel by Palestinian terrorists and FBI foiled the ‘Landmarks’ plot in June 1993.

All these terror attacks included a similarity where at least more than eight militants took part in the swarm attack making it a complicated task for the security agencies to get split giving a good scope for the gunmen’s to carry out their mission killing innocent civilians in huge numbers. Most of these attackers of militant groups were equipped with suicide bomber vests to kill themselves when they are being surrounded security agencies.

Aftermath Effects of Terror Attacks

The swarm terror attacks such as of Mumbai and Paris bring in ill reputation for the nations effecting the economy, tourism. These destinations are avoided by the individuals and many organizations at least  for a duration of two to three years as unsafe zones for public gatherings and sports competitions such as Olympics and other sports carnivals. If we consider the stats, France emerged as world’s number one tourist destination last year attracting 83.7 million tourists.

While due to the current terror attacks, certainly the recorded figure of last year would drop down which would affect the tourism of the nation in some way. Militant groups which been recruiting more than  20,000 foreign fighters annually are favoring swarm attacks than classic hostage siege types as these type of attacks would give the nations and security agencies an ample time to deploy the forces and burst out their plans.

The successful deployment of swarm attacks in Mumbai and Paris mean terrorist groups have abandoned the classic hostage situation like the two-day siege in Munich, 1972 or the three-day siege of the Moscow theatre in 2002. Long sieges give states the time to deploy the full might of their resources and even impose media blackouts that could starve terrorists of their oxygen of media publicity. On a concluding note, we can state that tried in Mumbai, perfected in Paris if the current assailants of Paris are of  same terror group of LeT who conspired Mumbai attacks.