Three dead in shooting at service station in southern France
Gunmen opened fire on Sunday evening on suspected drug dealers at a service station close to Toulon, in south-east France, killing two men and a woman reported to be a passing tourist, and seriously wounding her husband.
FrenchFrench police were hunting multiple suspects Monday after a woman on vacation and two local residents were killed in a shooting near a service station in a southern town, reports The Washington Post.
The 57-year-old French traveler and her husband were apparently caught in a settling of scores Sunday night between local drug dealers fighting for territory, vice prosecutor Dominique Mirkovic told reporters.
The local residents, ages 29 and 30, were known to police for drug infractions, the prosecutor said. The vacationing woman’s husband was wounded but his life is not in danger. The victims were not identified.
Mirkovic said police found signs of 29 gunshots fired around a car wash in the town of Ollioules near the Mediterranean Sea. Rattled by the violence, the mayor of Ollioules pleaded for more security resources.
