A shooting today in a suburb south of Paris killed an unarmed policewoman and injured a traffic agent, the day after an attack at Charlie Hebdo magazine left 12 dead and prompted France to put its capital on highest terrorist alert, reports Bloomberg.
A suspect in today’s shooting is on the run, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters at the site.
It’s too soon to link today’s attack to yesterday’s shootings at the satirical publication, French police said.
Paris is in lockdown as the police search for two men suspected of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, after the youngest suspect turned himself in last night at a police station in the Champagne-Ardenne region in eastern France. Seven people are being questioned, Cazeneuve said today.
At around 8 a.m. local time today, the policewoman and a traffic agent responded to a traffic accident on a large avenue separating the suburbs of Malakoff and Montrouge, south of Paris, officials said. An assailant with a pistol and an automatic weapon shot them, police union official Emmanuel Cravello told journalists on site.
Read more of this report from Bloomberg.
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