French security official says two people, including a policewoman, have been gravely wounded in a second shooting on the southern edge of Paris,news.com.au reports.
A policewoman and a city employee were seriously hurt after a man opened fire with an automatic rifle outside Paris, police said, but no link has yet been established with Wednesday’s deadly attack on a satirical magazine.
The gunman is still on the run, according Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who rushed to the scene at Montrouge just south of the city. Police initially said the two victims were critical, but Cazeneuve said just the policewoman was fighting for her life.
The incident comes on a day of mourning in France after Islamist gunmen stormed the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, killing eight journalists, two police and two others.
The men are still thought to be on the run, and there has so far been no claim of responsibility for the massacre that has deeply shocked France.
Paris police said it was too early to draw any connection between the shootings. France is on its highest level of alert.
The shootout comes after French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says there were “several arrests” overnight in the hunt for two suspects in the deadly shooting at the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
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