Paris was under siege and France was shutting its borders last night after a series of explosions and deadly shootings claimed the lives of up to 60 people, causing mayhem and panic throughout the French capital.

A policewoman shot near Paris has reportedly died after a second attack on police in the French capital in consecutive days.

A lone man carrying a gun stole €6m-6.5m worth of jewels this afternoon from the Chopard jewellery house on Paris’s chic Place Vendome, police and a police union official said.