French official: shooter kills several at school

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There were several dead in the shooting Monday morning at the school in Toulouse.

19 March,2012 03:41 pm

A shooter has opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a southwest French city killing several people, the Toulouse prosecutor said Monday.Michel Valet told The Associated Press that there were several dead in the shooting Monday morning at the school in Toulouse. He said it was unclear whether the victims were children.The shooting happened in the same area where a gunman on a motorbike opened fire on three uniformed paratroopers at a bank machine Thursday, killing two and critically wounding the other. The attack in the town of Montauban occurred not far from the soldiers barracks.Four days earlier, a gunman on a motorbike shot and killed another paratrooper in Toulouse, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) away.Authorities said at the time that forensic analysis showed that the same weapon was used in the shootings in Montauban and Toulouse.