Four die in shooting outside school in France
Monday March 19, 2012 06:30:17 PM,
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Paris: Three
children and an adult were shot dead Monday when a gunman went on
a killing spree outside a Jewish school in the southwestern French
city of Toulouse, a media report said.
The shooting, the third of its kind in the region in a week, took
place outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school at around 8 a.m.,
just as students were arriving for school.
The gunman fled on a motorbike after the shooting.
Michel Valet, a prosecutor, said the gunman had "shot at
everything he could see, children and adults, and some children
were chased into the school", reported Xinhua.
French Interior Minister Claude Gueant, who rushed to Toulouse,
has ordered "to strengthen surveillance" around Jewish schools in
France, Europe 1 reported.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is also expected to arrive in
Toulouse to visit the school.
Police in southwestern France launched a major manhunt last week
after the killing of three paratroopers and the wounding of
another in two separate but connected incidents. The attacker in
both cases fled on a scooter.
According to French paper Le Figaro, authorities said the weapon
used in Monday's shooting was the same kind that was used in last
week's attacks on the paratroopers.
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