Children aged three, six and 10, and a religious education teacher were killed in a shooting at a Jewish school in southwestern France, the local prosecutor said.
Witnesses and parents of pupils said that a teacher and his two children were among the victims in the attack in the city of Toulouse, the third shooting in a week in the region.
The shooter drove away on a scooter, a national police official in Paris said. The private Jewish school is located in the northeast of Toulouse.
The official did not wish to be named in line with departmental rules.
The shooting occurred about 8:10 a.m. just ahead of the start of classes in most schools.
The shooting happened in the same area where a gunman on a motorbike opened fire on three uniformed paratroopers at a bank machine Thursday, killing two and critically wounding the other. The attack in the town of Montauban occurred not far from the soldiers' barracks. Four days earlier, a gunman on a motorbike shot and killed another paratrooper in Toulouse, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) away.
Authorities said at the time that forensic analysis showed that the same weapon was used in the shootings in Montauban and Toulouse.
It was not immediately clear if all three shootings are related.
Children aged 3, 6, 10 killed at French school
Children aged three, six and 10, and a religious education teacher were killed in a shooting at a Jewish school in southwestern France, the local prosecutor said.
Witnesses and parents of pupils said that a teacher and his two children were among the victims in the attack in the city of Toulouse, the third shooting in a week in the region.
The shooter drove away on a scooter, a national police official in Paris said. The private Jewish school is located in the northeast of Toulouse.
The official did not wish to be named in line with departmental rules.
The shooting occurred about 8:10 a.m. just ahead of the start of classes in most schools.
The shooting happened in the same area where a gunman on a motorbike opened fire on three uniformed paratroopers at a bank machine Thursday, killing two and critically wounding the other. The attack in the town of Montauban occurred not far from the soldiers' barracks. Four days earlier, a gunman on a motorbike shot and killed another paratrooper in Toulouse, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) away.
Authorities said at the time that forensic analysis showed that the same weapon was used in the shootings in Montauban and Toulouse.
It was not immediately clear if all three shootings are related.
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