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The French police on Monday launched an extensive manhunt in Paris for a lone gunman who critically wounded a newspaper photographer and opened fire on a bank.
According to news.com.au, officers on foot and in squad cars are deployed throughout the nervous capital, taking up positions outside media offices, along the famed Champs-Elysees avenue and at entrances to stations for the underground train system, the Metro.
The gunman, reportedly wore cap and wielded a 12-gauge shotgun. He opened fire at the offices of left-wing newspaper Liberation around 10:15 am (0915 GMT) Monday, hitting a newspaper photographer in the chest and stomach.
The photographer was rushed to the hospital and is now in intensive care.
After fleeing the daily's offices in the central east of Paris, the same man is believed to have crossed the city to the La Defense business district where he fired several shots outside the main office of the Societe Generale bank, hitting no one.
He then reportedly hijacked a car and forced the driver at gunpoint to drop him off close to the Champs-Elysees.
According to news.com.au, officers on foot and in squad cars are deployed throughout the nervous capital, taking up positions outside media offices, along the famed Champs-Elysees avenue and at entrances to stations for the underground train system, the Metro.
The gunman, reportedly wore cap and wielded a 12-gauge shotgun. He opened fire at the offices of left-wing newspaper Liberation around 10:15 am (0915 GMT) Monday, hitting a newspaper photographer in the chest and stomach.
The photographer was rushed to the hospital and is now in intensive care.
After fleeing the daily's offices in the central east of Paris, the same man is believed to have crossed the city to the La Defense business district where he fired several shots outside the main office of the Societe Generale bank, hitting no one.
He then reportedly hijacked a car and forced the driver at gunpoint to drop him off close to the Champs-Elysees.
