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A man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting dead a job centre adviser and a human resources manager in France as part of a series of attacks against HR workers.
The two women were gunned down in Valence, southeastern France, on Thursday and the suspect from Nancy was arrested soon afterwards.
Police have since connected the man, 45, to two other shootings against HR workers on Tuesday which saw a third woman killed and a man injured.
Police and emergency personnel stand guard outside a job centre after a woman was gunned down in Valence on Thursday
In a second attack on the same day, a female HR employee was shot at the Faun refuse company before the gunman was arrested
Gunman kills two after attack on French job centre
By Jan van der Made - RFI LISTEN
REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
A gunman on Thursday shot dead a female employee at a government job centre in southeastern France and then killed another woman on the premises of a company in the region, police and prosecutors said.
The man shot the job centre employee after he entered the office in the city of Valence, said a police source, who asked not to be identified by name, confirming a report first published in the Dauphine Libéré newspaper.
The assailant then went to the nearby town of Guilherand-Granges where he shot twice a female employee of a refuse collection company.
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