BREAKING NEWS: New terror in Paris as female police officer is shot dead and street cleaner injured by ‘North African wielding assault rifle and wearing bullet-proof vest’
A female police officer has been shot dead and a street cleaner left injured in the second attack to hit Paris in less than 24 hours. The officer, who has not been named, died this morning following the shooting in Montrouge, in the south of the city. The street cleaner was also hurt in the attack.
Both had been described by a police source as being in a ‘very serious condition’ after the shooting. Shots rang out in Montrouge at the start of the morning rush hour, with an M5 assault rifle believed to have been used. However, police are currently not linking this morning’s attack to the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday.
Female police officer shot dead in Paris and street cleaner injured by ‘North African wielding assault rifle and wearing bullet-proof vest’
- Policewoman had stopped to investigate a traffic accident in Montrouge just before dawn this morning
- Witnesses describe hearing at least five shots ring out during the assault in the south of Paris
- Attacker is said to have ‘used an M5 assault rifle’ before fleeing scene wearing a ‘bullet-proof vest’
- New horror just hours after massacre of 12 at Paris magazine office – including two police officers
- Masked gunmen stormed offices with AK-47s shouting ‘Allahu akbar!’ and ‘Prophet has been avenged’
- Manhunt is still underway for two of the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo shooting
- Massacre gunmen, identified as brothers ‘trained in Yemen as assassins’, have been sighted in northern France
A female police officer has been shot dead and a street cleaner left injured in the second attack to hit Paris in less than 24 hours.
The officer, who has not been named, died this morning following the shooting in Montrouge, in the south of the city.
The street cleaner was also hurt in the attack.
Both had been described by a police source as being in a ‘very serious condition’ after the shooting, which is not known if it’s linked to the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday.
That massacre claimed 12 lives, including those of two police officers.
Today shots rang out in Montrouge at the start of the morning rush hour, with an M5 assault rifle believed to have been used.
Rescue service workers evacuate an injured person on a stretcher after the shooting in Montrouge which left a female police officer dead
The officer was shot after stopping in the street to investigate a traffic accident
It is thought the assailant used an M5 assault rifle in the attack, before fleeing the scene wearing a ‘bullet-proof vest”
France’s top security official Bernard Cazenueve said the officer had stopped to investigate a traffic accident when the firing started.
‘There was an officer in front of a white car and a man running away who shot,’ said Ahmed Sassi, who saw the shooting from his home nearby.
He said the shooter wore dark clothes but no mask.
‘It didn’t look like a big gun because he held it with one hand,’ Sassi said.
William Thomas, a 19-year-old who lives close to this morning’s attack, said: ‘I was woken up by the first three shots.
‘Then I heard someone shout “Take that” and there were another two shots. It was before 8am.’
The automatic gunfire was followed by the arrival of numerous special operations police, accompanied by emergency services.
A man who appeared to be of North African origin was seen running away from the scene. He was thought to be wearing a bullet proof vest.
‘Emergency workers tried to revive the woman officer at the scene but she was in a very bad way,’ an officer at the scene had said earlier.
