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A gunman who officials suspect may have been motivated by Islamophobic hatred opened fire from a car west of Paris on Friday, killing one person and wounding four others, including a 12-year-old girl.
“The investigations are ongoing, but it is clearly a terrorist crime. It is an extremely serious act,” Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters from the Yvelines district west of Paris where the attack took place.
Officials said the 39-year-old suspect, who has not been named, drove through the town of Trappes, where he fired an automatic weapon at a petrol station, a medical centre and a children’s playground.
Police search a car after the shooting in Trappes. AP Photo/Emma Da Silva
Broadcaster BFM said the wounded girl had been hit eight times and was in a serious condition.
