France prison van attack: Two French prison officers killed in ambush - BBC News

French media say an inmate escaped during the attack in which three other officers were also injured.

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Two French prison officers have been killed in an ambush on a prison van near Rouen in Normandy.

Reports in French media say an inmate who was being transported in the van has escaped together with the attackers.

Several hundred police officers and gendarmes have reportedly been deployed to carry out a manhunt.

French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X that "everything is being done to find the perpetrators".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-69008577

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