BRUSSELS - European countries have beefed up security following Friday's multiple attacks in Paris that killed more than 160 people and drew strong condemnations from the international community.

About seven well-coordinated shootings and bombings rocked central Paris Friday night, one of which turned into a hostage taking at the Bataclan theater and concert hall where hundreds of people were attending a rock concert.

At least two explosions were heard near the national stadium Stade de France where a France-Germany friendly soccer match was being played, attended by French President Francois Hollande.

According to local media, the death toll rose to 128 victims, with 250 people wounded, among whom 99 are in very critical situation, in "an unprecedented terrorist attack".

Investigators said at least eight attackers were killed, with seven of them having blown themselves up.

French President Francois Hollande on Saturday chaired an emergency defense council, the second in few hours after an apparently coordinated attacks and bombing rocked the French capital Friday night.

Calling the attacks "an act of war that was prepared, organized,  planned from abroad with internal help", Hollande, together with Prime Minister Manuel Valls and several ministers, including Interior Minister Bernard Caseneuve, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, in addition to army chiefs pledged to dig for adequate security measure to ensure the safety of the eurozone's second leading power.

French anti-terror police are working to find out potential accomplices to the attackers as the French authorities claimed that they couldn't rule out the possibility that other militants involved in the attack remained at large.(Xinhua)