Students held a candlelit vigil to remember those murdered in the Paris attacks.

Tealights spelling out Paris and a picture of the Eiffel Tower sparkled brightly yet poignantly in front of the students union at the University of Huddersfield on Saturday evening.

Around 50 people, many of them French students at the university, gathered in a circle to pay their respects to the at least 128 people who lost their lives when terrorists launched six almost simultaneous attacks at a music hall, bars and restaurants across the city on Friday night.

Amongst the victims were 80 music lovers who died when gunmen stormed into the Bataclan arts centre, where American rock band Eagles of Death Metal were playing.

Students at the University of Huddersfield show their support for Paris after the terrorist attacks
Students at the University of Huddersfield show their support for Paris after the terrorist attacks
Students at the University of Huddersfield show their support for Paris after the terrorist attacks
Students at the University of Huddersfield show their support for Paris after the terrorist attacks

It was the most devastating attack on French soil since World War Two and the second in only two months following the shootings of journalists and cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo.

The event in Huddersfield was organised by four members of the university's French Students' Society, who played stirring French music and invited people to make speeches about the devastating events.

One, Klervi Guermeur, from Nantes, said: "We want to show our support for the victims, their friends and the whole country.

"But it is also to show a public display of strength in the face of these horrendous attacks.

"I think France is known worldwide for its people's right of free expression and we want to commemorate that also.

"We heard about what happened via Facebook and we're all deeply shocked.

"Many of us have friends and family in Paris".

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Another student, Honorine Bézin, is studying for one semester in Huddersfield and is from Paris, where her friends and family still live.

She could not believe that the attacks had happened.

Honorine said: "I couldn't sleep last night because of it all.

"I rang my mum, sister and friends to make sure they were all safe and they told me they had been confined in buildings by security staff during the attacks.

Students at the University of Huddersfield show their support for Paris after the terrorist attacks
Students at the University of Huddersfield show their support for Paris after the terrorist attacks

"I go to the Bataclan a lot back home - it could have easily been me or anyone else, there will have been so many young victims.

"After the Charlie Hebdo attacks we thought we would be safe due to the security measures taken but no.

"The support though has been amazing from all over the world. I just hope that no kneejerk responses are made by our government in terms of bombings because that would just make the situation worse".

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President Francois Hollande has declared three days of national mourning in France and declared a state of emergency.

He believes that Islamic State were behind the attacks, which are now the subject of a massive investigation.