Rescue service workers and firefighters gather near the site of the shooting in Montrouge Photo: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images
A female police officer has been killed in a second shooting in Paris,on Thursday 8th Jan Morning, French media reports.
Automatic gunfire was reported at Montrouge, a southwestern suburb of the capital, this
morning. Gunmen fled the scene via the metro.
One suspect has since been detained, another source close to the case said, while at least one other gunmen is missing.
Interior Minister Berbard Cazeneuve said authorities were doing their utmost to identify and arrest the attackers, and he cautioned against jumping to conclusions, a day after masked gunmen killed 12 people - including two police - in an assault on a satirical newspaper.
Cazeneuve left an emergency government meeting to travel to the scene of Thursday's shooting.
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