{"id":39957,"date":"2017-08-10T07:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T07:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39957"},"modified":"2017-08-10T07:44:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T07:44:59","slug":"man-held-car-rams-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/man-held-car-rams-soldiers.html","title":{"rendered":"Man held after car rams into soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man held after car rams into soldiers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Man held after car rams into soldiers:- Police in France have shot, wounded and arrested a man after a dramatic car chase along a motorway in the north of the country following an attack on soldiers in a suburb of Paris.<\/span>
\nA bullet-holed BMW could be seen where police brought it to a halt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier, six soldiers were wounded after a car was driven at them near their base in Levallois-Perret.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Paris prosecutor described the attack as “attempted killings… in relation to a terrorist undertaking”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reports say one policeman was injured during the arrest operation on the A16 motorway at the town of Marquise near the port of Boulogne.<\/span><\/p>\n

The BMW is said to have hit at least one other vehicle during the chase and the police opened fire several times. The suspect is in his 30s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three of the soldiers are now known to have been seriously wounded in the Paris attack. All were taken to hospital, though none is in a life-threatening condition, Defence Minister Florence Parly said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The motivation for the attack is as yet not known, but France, which is contributing to the fight against so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, has frequently been the target of attacks by Islamist militants.<\/span><\/p>\n

A state of emergency in force since November 2015 includes highly visible patrols under Operation Sentinel, numbering some 7,000 troops.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 13 November 2015, 130 people were killed in a night of attacks in Paris, and more than 100 have been killed in jihadist attacks since.<\/span><\/p>\n

They include a string of assaults on the heavily armed security forces who now dot the streets of the capital – the last only four days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday’s attack at about 08:15 local time (06:15 GMT) took place in a pedestrian zone near the soldier’s base on the Place de Verdun in Levallois-Perret.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said the car had been driven deliberately at the troops and the attack had been carried out by a “man on his own”.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was driven slowly until it came within 5m (16ft) of the patrol before accelerating towards them, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-40873801<\/span><\/p>\n

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