Paris boom: Buildings shake across French capital after huge blast heard
A LARGE bang was heard rippling across Paris, France, sparking panic in the city.
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The cause of the loud bang was confirmed to be from a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier. The plane was scrambled in response to another aircraft crossing into the city's restricted airspace.
A defence ministry spokesman confirmed it was a sonic boom but did not immediately offer further comment.
Police in Paris urged people not to phone the emergency phone lines after they heard the boom.
They said: "A very important noise was heard in Paris and in the Paris region.
"There is no explosion, it is about a fighter plane which crossed the sound barrier.
"Don't clutter up the emergency lines!"
Footage of a French Open match between Stan Wawrinka and Dominik Koepfer showed the game pause after they heard the loud noise.
A bang can then be heard in the background of the video as the players looked on in confusion.
Social media users were quick to share their experience of hearing the loud explosion.
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One person wrote: "Heard it 10 minutes ago East of Paris, looks like a supersonic, followed by two minutes roar."
Other people share their horror as they initially thought the sound was an attack.
One person tweeted: "Sound of explosion near the François Mitterrand Library, we were all afraid that it was an attack."
Other witnesses said they felt their buildings shaking.
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The effects of the huge noise were also heard in several central districts.
However, there are not yet any reports of smoke or fire.
No injures have yet been reported either.
It comes just days after a knife attack took place outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Friday.
The attack resulted in two people being injured, with one in a critical condition.
The attack is also being treated as an Islamist extremist attack by police.
A total of seven people have been arrested in relation to the incident.
It took place on the same week a trial was being held over the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, when a gunmen killed 12 employees after it published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.