Paris: French police fired on a car that lurched towards a military museum building in Paris on Wednesday and arrested the driver, a police official said. A policeman fired around 10 shots at the vehicle, which was brought to a halt, and the driver was taken into custody, said the official. The incident took place at the Les Invalides complex in the heart of Paris, where a remembrance ceremony was recently held for those killed in the November 13 attacks on Paris. Islamist attackers killed 130 people in a series of coordinated assaults on a range of Parisian cultural sites, including the Bataclan theatre, in the November onslaught. More to come. Reuters ...
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