PARIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) – A man armed with a knife tried to attack a police officer near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Friday, resulting in a second police officer opening fire to subdue him, a police source and the mayor for Paris’ 8th district said.
The French anti-terrorist department added it was aware of the situation and had opened an inquiry into the incident.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, Juliette Jabkhiro, Nicolas Delame; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
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