One killed, four injured in drive-by shooting near Paris

PARIS, Oct 23 — One person was killed and at ​least four others were injured in a shooting in the Yvelines district ‌west of Paris, and a suspect has been arrested, ⁠French Prime Minister ​Sebastien Lecornu said ⁠on Friday.

Ali Rabeh, the mayor of ‌the Yvelines town ‌of Trappes, told BFMTV that a man ⁠had fired shoots ⁠from his car and "appeared to be firing at random and seemed intent on carrying out a massacre".

He said one of those injured was a 12-year-old girl, ‌adding that the shooter ​lived in a near-by town. There was no information so far about his motives, he said.

Lecornu wrote on X that security forces had been fully mobilised. "The national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has announced that ​it is monitoring the situation," he ‌added.

Representatives for ‌the ⁠prosecutor's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and the prefecture declined to comment. The anti-terrorism prosecutor's office confirmed ‌it was monitoring ​the case.

(Reporting by Juliette ‌Jabkhiro, Dominique Vidalon ⁠and ​Zhifan Liu; Editing by Makini Brice and Crispian ​Balmer)

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