Cop Killed In Second Paris Terror Attack

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A major police operation is under way in France as prosecutors confirmed the second terror attack in the capital in as many days.

Several armed officers were at the scene of a fatal shooting this morning in the south of Paris.

A female police officer, reportedly 25, was killed after she was called to reports of a traffic accident involving a grey Clio at around 7.15am.

A street sweeper was critically injured in the shooting, which is now being treated as a "terrorist act" by the French authorities.

Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said police with heavy armour were seen in Porte de Chatillon shortly afterwards and TV news crews were being pushed back from the area, which was sealed off with tape.

Meanwhile, officers are still hunting for suspects in the deadly gun attack on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

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Gallery: French Villages Filled With Terror Police

Police have swarmed the small village of Crepy-en-Valois

Two men matching the descriptions of brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi were reportedly spotted by a petrol station manager

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Helicopters have been seen flying over the French countryside

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Shots are said to have been fired during a robbery at the station near Villers-Cotteret in the northern Aisne region, east of Paris

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Le Parisien said men wearing balaclavas were travelling on the N2 road in the direction of Paris in a Renault Clio which had weapons on its back seat

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Two men matching their description are said to have robbed a petrol station about an hour's drive northeast of Paris.

Footage of police activity in the village of Crepy-en-Valois, 10 miles (16km) from that scene, is now emerging.

With the country now on its highest terror alert, hundreds of extra officers have been deployed to guard media offices, places of worship and other areas deemed at risk in the capital.

Some 200 soldiers from parachute regiments across the country have been drafted in to Paris, bringing the number of military patrolling the streets to 850.

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In today's attack, which is not being linked by officials to yesterday's shootings, a man wearing a bullet-proof vest fired at the council worker and police woman, who became the third officer to be killed in the capital in 24 hours.

Witness Ahmed Sassi said: "There was an officer in front of a white car and a man running away who shot."

TV channel iTele said both victims of the shooting were seen lying on the ground.

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Gallery: Paris Police Officer Shot Dead In New Attack

A female traffic police officer has been shot dead in a fresh attack in Paris, a day after the killing of 12 people at the offices of satirical paper Charlie Hebdo

According to police sources a man wearing a bullet-proof vest and armed with an automatic rifle shot the officer in the back in the south of the capital

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Le Parisien newspaper reported that one of the shooters ran towards the Metro station Chatillon-Montrouge. The other is reported to have fled by car and is still on the run.

AFP news agency reported that a 53-year-old suspect has been detained.

Brunt said: "It's difficult to believe there's no link (to the Charlie Hebdo shootings).

"Maybe it is a copycat, but maybe it is not related."

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said authorities were doing their best to identify and arrest the attacker, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions about any link to the Charlie Hebdo attack.

The officers were gathering in Porte de Chatillon as a minute's silence was held across France in a mark of respect for the victims of yesterday's violence.

Other attacks have also been reported today - including a "criminal" explosion at a kebab shop near a mosque in eastern France.

Overnight, two Muslim places of worship - in Le Mans, west of Paris, and Port-la-Nouvelle, in southern France - were targeted by blank grenades and gunfire respectively. No casualties were reported.

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