Several injured in shooting at French school: sources

March 16, 2017 06:25 pm | Updated November 29, 2021 01:30 pm IST - Paris, France

A French police message alert is displayed on a cell phone in Paris, France, on March 16, 2017. The French government has sent out an alert warning of an attack at the Alexis de Tocqueville high school in the southern French town of Grasse after local police reported that shots have been fired.

A French police message alert is displayed on a cell phone in Paris, France, on March 16, 2017. The French government has sent out an alert warning of an attack at the Alexis de Tocqueville high school in the southern French town of Grasse after local police reported that shots have been fired.

Several people were injured in a shooting at a high school in the southern French town of Grasse on Thursday, police said.

One person was arrested and another was on the run after the shooting at the Tocqueville high school, a police source told AFP , asking not to be named.

All schools in the town, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Nice, have been locked down, education authorities said.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve cut short a trip to the northern Somme area because of the Grasse shooting, as well as a letter bomb blast at the offices of the International Monetary Fund in Paris on Thursday.

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