Gunman shoots man lifeless, injures woman in front of Paris hospital – Times of India
PARIS: An unidentified gunman shot lifeless a man and injured a woman on Monday in Paris earlier than fleeing on a bike, in what the native mayor stated gave the impression to be a personal quarrel and never terrorism-associated.
The two had been shot in front of a hospital which additionally serves as a Covid-19 vaccination centre in the upmarket sixteenth arrondissement of the French capital. The injured woman is being handled for her wounds in the hospital, a police supply stated.
“It is not a terrorist attack, it was probably a case of score-settling,” Francis Szpiner, mayor of the sixteenth arrondissement, advised reporters.
The Paris prosecutor has opened a homicide investigation, a spokesman stated.
Police union official Rocco Contento advised BFM tv there had been an argument between the gunman and the woman, who has been recognized as a safety official on the hospital, and {that a} man who tried to intervene was then shot.
An eyewitness advised Reuters the man was shot in the pinnacle a number of occasions whereas he was on the bottom.
The vaccination centre on the Henry Dunant hospital was working on the time of the incident.