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| Paris shooting: Female police officer dies following assault rifle attack morning after Charlie Hebdo killings | |
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| A female police officer has reportedly died of her injuries after her and a colleague were shot in southern Paris this morning, less than 24 hours after the gun attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. | |
| Two men with assault rifles wounded two local police officers, incuding a woman, after their car was involved in a road accident. One of the gunmen was reported to have been arrested. The other fled. | Two men with assault rifles wounded two local police officers, incuding a woman, after their car was involved in a road accident. One of the gunmen was reported to have been arrested. The other fled. |
| A car believed to belong to the gunman has reportedly been found by police around two-and-a-half miles from the scene. | |
| Police said that it was too early to say whether the incident was connected with the assault on the offices of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday which killed 12 people. | Police said that it was too early to say whether the incident was connected with the assault on the offices of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday which killed 12 people. |
| Heavily armed police cordoned off the streets around the Avenue Pierre Brossollette in Montrouge, just south of the Paris city boundary. A helicopter hovered overhead. | Heavily armed police cordoned off the streets around the Avenue Pierre Brossollette in Montrouge, just south of the Paris city boundary. A helicopter hovered overhead. |
| Eye-witnesses said that one of the gunmen was of "African appearance" suggesting that he was not one of the two Franco-Algerian brothers sought for the Charlie Hebdo killings. Another witness said that he was dressed in black and wearing a bullet-proof vest. | |
| The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking at the scene, said it was unclear whether the two incidents were linked. He appealed for “calm and restraint”. | |
| Overnight, there were disturbing reports of apparent revenge attacks on Muslim targets in severalparts of France. None of the attacks caused deaths or inuries. | |
| At Villefranch-sur Saone in eastern France, a makeshift explosive device was detomated outside a kebab restaurant close to a mosque. Local police decined to make a direct lin with the Charlie Hebdo attack. | |
| Two shots were fired at a Muslim prayer hall at Port la Nouvells in Aude in southern France. In Caromb, near Avignon, shots were fired at a parked car belonging to a family of North African origin. |