A gunman on Thursday shot dead a female employee at a government job centre in southeastern France and then killed another woman on the premises of a company in the region, police and prosecutors said, reports RFI.
The man shot the job centre employee after he entered the office in the city of Valence, said a police source, who asked not to be identified by name, confirming a report first published in the Dauphine Libéré newspaper.
The assailant then went to the nearby town of Guilherand-Granges where he shot twice a female employee of a refuse collection company.
She later died of her wounds, Valence prosecutor Alex Perrin told AFP.
"This morning, a tragedy occurred in the Valence Hugo job agency," says a tweet of the national job centers Pôle Emploi. "One of our colleagues, a team leader, died of a fatal assault. All our thoughts are with the families of the victims, loved ones, and our co-workers."