Unrest again in France: 2 Killed, another Wounded
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Two men were killed and a female teenager was seriously wounded in a rifle assault in the southern French port city of Marseille.
Meanwhile, the assailant or assailants and the victims of the early Saturday attack are yet to be identified by name. French media outlets only disclosed that those who were fatally shot were both 30 years of age and described the wounded girl from the strike as a 14-year-old.
According to initial information, Kalashnikov rifles were used in the attack. It is not clear if the attack was of a terrorist nature. There have been shooting attacks associated with organized crime in the city before. Six people were killed since the start of the year in such attacks.
For his part, police Commissioner Laurent Nunez said two of the victims were inside a car and the teenager was accidentally passing by at the time of the attack.
Early in October, three people were killed in a shooting incident in Marseille in what appeared to be a drug-related attack.
Reacting to the attack, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said back then that nothing could stop the "determination of the state to fight organized crime."
Also late last year, Interior Minister Bernard Cazenueve vowed a crackdown and said 6,000 weapons a year were being seized from criminal groups in Marseille, of which 1,200 were combat rifles and other weapons of war.
France has seen terrorist attacks in the recent past, too. On November 13, 2015, Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] launched a series of attacks in Paris, killing some 130 people. In January the same year, Daesh terrorists struck the French satirical Charlie Hebdo offices in the French capital, killing 12 people.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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