Paris: Two policemen were gunned down Thursday near Porte de Chantillon, south of Paris.
According to media reports, they were seen lying on the ground, Xinhua reported. A suspect has been arrested, a police source said. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve quit his emergency inter-ministerial meeting in the Elysee Palace and is on his way to the scene. Some other reports said one officer was seriously wounded. There is no link confirmed with Wednesday’s attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine. The two suspects of the attack, which left 12 dead and 11 injured, are still on the run. A third, a youngster, surrendered to police later.
At the same time, a “criminal” explosion occurred early today at a kebab shop near a mosque in the eastern French town of Villefranche-sur-Saone, officials said, but left no casualties.
“It is a criminal act,” a local official said, adding that a police investigation has been opened. No link was suggested with the deadly attack on Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo a day earlier.
