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Two people died and several were critically injured after a gunman opened fire in Paris, the capital of France, The Sun reported. The mass shooting took place at a Kurdish cultural center on Rue d’Enghien in the 10th Arrondissement of Paris.
Paris police said on Twitter an operation was ongoing, asking the public to avoid the area. Emergency services have been rushed to a community center close to Paris’s Gare du Nord station.
Police have arrested the suspected gunman, French television network BFM TV reported. The killer is reported to be a man in his 70s.
The area is close to a number of busy shopping streets and the Grand Rex, often described as Europe’s biggest cinema.
A shopkeeper close to the shooting site said she heard seven or eight shots. “It was total panic. We locked ourselves inside,” she told The Sun.
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Paris saw its worst terror attack in 2015 when a series of bombings and shootings across the French capital killed 130 people and injured more than 490.
The attacks, for which Islamic State claimed responsibility, began when suicide bombers struck outside the national sports stadium on the night of November 13, 2015. It was followed by shootings and suicide bombings targeting cafes and restaurants. A gun attack at the Bataclan theater during a rock concert by Eagles of Death Metal killed 90 people.
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