A policewoman has died and a city employee is in a critical condition after a man fired on them with an automatic rifle outside Paris this morning.
Police are treating it as a terrorist attack but said no link has been established with yesterday’s deadly attack on the offices of magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The officer stopped to investigate a traffic accident in Montrouge. The second casualty was a street cleaner.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the gunman was on the run.
He was reportedly wearing a bullet-proof vest and had a handgun and an automatic rifle.
A police source said they lost track of the alleged attacker in the La Defense area of Paris.
The shooting happened after police and maintenance workers were called to Montrouge following a road accident just before 7am.
Unrest overnight following Paris attack
Muslim places of worship in two French towns were fired upon overnight, prosecutors said.
Three blank grenades were thrown at a mosque shortly after midnight in the city of Le Mans, west of Paris.
A bullet hole was also found in a window of the mosque.
In the Port-la-Nouvelle district near Narbonne in southern France, several shots were fired in the direction of a Muslim prayer hall shortly after evening prayers.
The hall was empty, the local prosecutor said.
An explosion at a kebab shop near a mosque in the eastern French town of Villefranche-sur-Saone this morning.
Local prosecutors have described it as a "criminal act".
There were no casualties in any of the incidents.
