French police officer wounded in knife attack; suspect killed in shootout

Police say an ex-prisoner who was on a watch list for Islamic extremism stabbed a police officer inside her station. 

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A man was killed in a shootout with French police on Friday after he attacked and badly wounded a police officer with a knife in the western town of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, officials said, reports Deutsche Welle.