APD | Four Paris police killed in knife attack

By APD writer Aditya Nugraha

PARIS -- Four police at the police headquarters in Paris were killed in a knife attack at noon on Thursday with the attacker was shot dead on the scene.

Police union official Loic Travers said the attack occurred in lunch time around 1:00 p.m., started from an office in the police headquarters and continued elsewhere in the location.

Police immediately sealed the attack scene in the headquarters located across Paris popular tour spot of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Police also close down the metro station near the location for security reason.

“People are running randomly, some were crying. I heard gunshots. I also saw a police cried. They were panic,” Emery Siamandi, an interpreter at the headquarters said.

The attack made France Interior Minister Christophe Castaner cancelled his schedule to depart for Turkey in an official visit and visited the attack location.

The minister said in a press conference after his visit that the attacker was a 45-year-old man and had been employed by the police in an administrative capacity since 2003.

The four killed consisted of 3 men and 1 woman, he said. A person injured in the attack now is undergoing an operation in a hospital, the minister added.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)