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| Three killed and two police wounded in French Roma camp shootout | |
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| Three people have been killed and two police officers injured in a shootout at a Roma camp in northern France. | |
| The police officers were responding to initial reports that shots had been fired at the camp in the town of Roye, in the Somme department north of Paris. One officer was critically injured and the other slightly wounded. | |
| A suspect was injured in the melee and arrested, according to a spokesman for the regional gendarme service. | |
| The shooting took place at around 4.30pm. Local media reports said the camp was close to a police station. | |
| A newspaper, le Courrier Picard, said a man, a woman and a young child had died and the one of the policemen was fighting for his life. | |
| The motives for the shooting were not immediately clear. The injured were transported by helicopter and ambulance to Amiens university hospital. |