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France: 3 people wounded in shooting on high-speed train

A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris Friday, wounding three people, two of them critically, officials said.

 

The suspect was arrested after the train stopped in Arras, 115 miles north of Paris, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henri Brandet said on French television BFM. Passengers were evacuated and police have secured the area. Investigators from France's special anti-terror police are leading the investigation, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office said. Two of the victims were in critical condition, according to a statement from the office of President Francois Hollande.

 


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