Shooter on the run in Paris after newspaper attack
Shooter on the run in Paris after newspaper attack
A frantic manhunt was underway for a gunman in Paris on Monday as a 27-year-old fought for his life after being shot at the offices of French daily Liberation.
The victim, a photographer's assistant, was shot in the chest and stomach with a pump-action shotgun and was in a critical condition, police and the newspaper said.
The shooter fled the scene and was still at large several hours after the attack, which occurred around 10:15am (0915 GMT).
Just over an hour later, witnesses described shots being fired -- also from a pump-action shotgun -- outside the headquarters of Societe Generale bank in the La Defense business district.
Police said they were also checking a statement by a car driver who claimed to have been briefly taken hostage by a gunman near La Defense and forced to drop him off close to the Champs-Elysees.
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