PARIS—One policeman was killed and another wounded in a shooting incident in central Paris on Thursday night, a police source said.
A person who fired on police on the Champs-Elysees shopping boulevard just days ahead of France’s presidential election has been killed, the source said. A police source also said there had been two assailants, and a witness told Reuters that one man got out of a car at the scene and began shooting with a machine gun.
Police authorities called on the public to avoid the area.
A Reuters reporter saw a helicopter flying low over central Paris, apparently part of a follow-up police operation.
Police secure the Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris, France on April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
