very latest. welcome to this special coverage of a major anti terrorist operation which is taking place in paris, after gunmen opened fire on a police van in the heart of the french capital, killing one officer and wounding two others. the incident took place in one of the city s most famous boulevard is, the champs elysees, which leads from the arctic tree on the to the place de la concorde. the gunmen got out of a carand la concorde. the gunmen got out of a car and began firing an automatic weapon before being shot dead by police. media reports say he was known to the intelligence services and police search was under way at his home in paris the islamic state group said it carried out the shooting, naming the attacker as a belgian. the incident comes days before the first round of the french presidential election. we will be live in paris in a moment. first europe editor reports from paris. mesdames et monsieurs, you have to stay back, please. the area is dangerous because
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best known streets, the avenue des champs elysees, which runs between the place charles de gaulle, and the place de la concorde. towards the western end, it s thought, about 300 metres barely a thousand feet from the arc de triomphe itself. the gunman drove a car up to the police bus, got out and began firing an automatic weapon, thought to be an assault rifle. officers then shot him dead. media reports suggest he was known to the intelligence services and police have been searching his home in the eastern suburbs of paris. the extremist group, the so called islamic state, is saying it was behind the shooting, and has named the attacker as a belgian, abu yousif. it is just days before the french vote in the first round of the presidential election. james reynolds reports from paris. in the minutes after the attack, the police in paris took every movement asa police in paris took every movement as a threat. at this stage, officers didn t know if any other gunmen might stil
a major security operation is underway in paris, where a gunman opened fire on a police bus in the heart of the french capital, killing one officer, wounding two others and a passer by. the gunman drove up to the bus, got out and began firing an automatic weapon, thought to be an assault rifle. officers then shot him dead. it happened on one of the city s best known streets, the avenue des champs elysees, which runs between the place charles de gaulle and the place de la concorde. towards the western end, it is thought, about 300 metres, barely 1,000 feet, from the arc de triomphe itself. reports suggest the gunman was known to the intelligence services, and police have been searching his home in the eastern suburbs of paris. the extremist group the so called islamic state is saying it was behind the shooting, and has named the attacker as a belgian, abu yousif. it is just days before the french vote in the first round of the presidential election. francois hollande, the curr
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