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Monday, June 19, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Monday, June 19, 2017
Police say Champs-Elysees car exploded after armed driver hits police van
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA car explodes and bursts into flames after it crashes into a police van on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on Monday, police and investigators say, adding that the driver was armed.
A source close to the investigation says the driver was “seriously injured.”
Police said earlier that the driver was “on the ground… unconscious.”
Police and judicial sources say they suspect the incident was a deliberate act.
The incident comes just two months after a policeman was shot and killed on the world-renowned avenue, three days before the first round of France’s presidential election.
A note praising the Islamic State group was found next to the body of the gunman, Karim Cheurfi, in that incident.
— AFP
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