Oct 31, 2023, 8:19 PM

Paris police shoot veiled woman

TEHRAN, Oct. 31 (MNA) – A veiled woman was shot and critically wounded by police in a Paris underground station after she threatened to detonate explosives, Western media reported on Tuesday.

French police on Tuesday, October 31, shot and gravely wounded a woman who was allegedly making threats in a Paris regional train, a police source and the Paris prosecutor's office told Agence France-Presse.

The police were contacted early this morning, following calls from passengers who mentioned a "fully veiled" woman who was "making threats" on an RER train then running in the Val-de-Marne, the police source explained.

The identity given by the woman has not yet been confirmed, said Paris Police.

MNA

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