Gunman who shot dead policewoman on run in France
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Source: AFP
Montrouge (France) (AFP) - A gunman shot dead a policewoman and seriously hurt a city employee just outside Paris on Thursday, spooking a city already reeling from a massacre at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The man, who wore a bullet-proof vest and carried a handgun and automatic rifle, was still on the run after committing the attack in Montrouge just south of Paris, which prosecutors said they were treating as a terror act.
But there were so far no indications that the incident was linked to Wednesday's Islamist attack in the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo that left 12 dead -- a maintenance worker, prominent journalists and cartoonists, a visitor and two policemen.
Security forces detained a man soon after the Montrouge shooting but he was not the shooter, police said. They then raided a hotel room nearby but that was unsuccessful. "We lost track of the alleged attacker in the La Defense area (business district next to Paris)," a police source said.
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