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French citizen among victims of Turkish nightclub shooting

Foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said a woman with French and Tunisian dual citizenship died in deadly attack in Istanbul early on Sunday.

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France's foreign minister says one French citizen was killed and three others wounded in the New Year's shooting attack at a crowded Istanbul nightclub, reports The New York Times.

Foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement that a woman with both French and Tunisian citizenship died in the attack early Sunday.

Ayrault says the woman's Tunisian husband also died.

Due to the presence of French citizens among the casualties, the Paris prosecutor's office says it has opened a criminal investigation for "terrorist murders and attempted murders."

An assailant opened fire at the Reina nightclub during New Year's celebrations, killing at least 39 people.

Read more of this Associated Press report published by The New York Times.