Female police officer killed in second Paris shooting was ‘27-year-old rookie’ who was shot in the back moments before hero street cleaner was blasted in the face as he wrestled ‘North African wielding assault rifle’
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- Office workers receive email warning them to stay indoors after 'armed man' spotted in Paris's business district
- Policewoman had stopped to investigate a traffic accident in Montrouge just before dawn this morning
- Two men tried to confront the gunman, who shot one of them in the face leaving him in a serious condition
- 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'
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- 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
French police officer shot and killed in the second horrifying gun
attack on Paris's streets in less than 24 hours has been named as a
27-year-old rookie who 'dreamed of serving her country'.
The
young policewoman who was gunned down as she attended a routine traffic
accident in Montrouge at 8am today has been named as Clarissa
Jean-Philippe in the French media.
A
second victim - a street cleaner who was shot in the face after he
confronted the gunman - is said to be in a serious condition.
This
shooting came less than 24 hours after the massacre at the Paris
offices of Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 dead - including two police
officers.
It is not known if the two attacks are linked.
Meanwhile,
terrified workers in Paris’s business district La Defense were warned
not to leave their office after a gunman was seen outside, French
newspaper Le Figaro reported.
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Rescue service workers evacuate an
injured person on a stretcher after the shooting in Montrouge which left
a female police officer dead
The officer - named as Clarissa
Jean-Philippe in the French media - was shot after stopping in the
street to investigate a traffic accident
A picture purporting to be of Ms Jean-Philippe has been shown on French news channel LCI
It is thought the assailant used an M5 assault rifle in the attack, before fleeing the scene wearing a 'bullet-proof vest''
A distraught woman is led away from the scene after the shooting in the southern suburb of Paris
France's
top security official Bernard Cazenueve said the Ms Jean-Philippe - a
trainee police officer who was from the island of Martinique - had
stopped to investigate a traffic accident when the firing started in the
southern suburb of Paris.
The gunman is believed to have been driving one of the cars.
'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.
The street sweeper, who was also hurt in the attack, is said to have been seriously injured
Police look for evidence left behind by the two men - at least one of whom was armed with a gun
A bullet found at the scene in Montrouge after two people were shot in the street at about 8am
Two people confronted the gunman, who is understood to have been driving the car involved in the accident
The gunman - who is understood to have been armed with an M5 assault rifle - blasted the officer.
The street cleaner who was shot in the face was one of two men who tried to grapple with the man during the incident, The Times reports.
The
cleaner was said to be in a serious condition by one police source,
while another said emergency services had tried to revive the police
officer at the scene 'but she was in a very bad way'.
Another
witness, 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.
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