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Backgrounder: Major terror attacks in France in 2015

(Xinhua)    12:48, November 14, 2015
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BEIJING, Nov. 14 -- On a Friday night when concert-goers were enjoying a concert in central Paris and when soccer fans were watching a match between Franceand Germanyat the Stade de France, a series of terror attacks befell, killing at least 153 people and leaving the nation in mourning and the world in outrage.

Below is a list of major terror attacks that rocked France in 2015:

On Aug. 21, 2015, an armed man opened fire on passengers of a Thalys high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris, wounding three before being arrested.

On June 26, 2015, two men loyal to the Islamic State beheaded one man and rammed a car into the gas containers of a U.S. gas company in southeast France, triggering an explosion and injuring two others.

On Jan. 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed into the Paris-based Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine offices and shot dead 12 people. An apparent associate of the shooters killed a police and four hostages held at a market in the flowing two days.

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