PARIS (AP) – The Latest on a knife attack at Paris police headquarters (all times local):
2:50 p.m.
A French police union official says four police officers have died in a knife attack carried out by an administrator at the Paris police headquarters. The attacker was shot to death.
Union official Loic Travers said the attack on Thursday appears to have begun in an office and continued elsewhere inside the large compound across the street from Notre Dame Cathedral.
Travers says the motive is unknown, but the employee allegedly responsible for the violence apparently never posed any problems before.
He says he can’t remember an attack on police officers of this magnitude.
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2:05 p.m.
A French police union official says at least one officer has died in a knife attack inside the Paris police headquarters.
Union official Loic Travers said several officers were injured during the midday attack on Thursday. Another union official had said earlier that two officers were injured, one gravely.
Police say the assailant was shot and killed at the scene. French media are reporting the attacker was an employee.
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1:55 p.m.
A French police union official says an attacker armed with a knife injured two officers inside Paris police headquarters before he was shot and killed.
Lefebvre told BFM television that one of the officers was gravely injured.
It wasn’t immediately clear how far inside the building the assailant got before police shot him.
French media say the country’s interior minister and the Paris prosecutor were on their way to the scene.