Gunman kills one victim and leaves another seriously injured in Paris

A gunman has killed one victim and severely wounded another outside a private Red Cross hospital in Paris.

The attack took place outside the Henry Dunant Hospital in the French capital’s 16th arrondissement early on Monday afternoon.

‘A gunman pulled up outside the hospital on a scooter and shot a man and a woman, leaving one dead,’ said a local police source.

The attack by a took place outside the Henry Dunant Hospital in the French capital’s 16th arrondissement early on Monday afternoon

Police patrol in the street of the Henry Dunant private hospital where one person was shot dead and one injured in a shooting in front of the institution owned by the Red Cross in Paris’ upmarket 16th district on April 12

French police cordon off the area near the Henry Dunant private hospital where one person was shot dead and one injured in a shooting outside the instituion owned by the Red Cross in Paris’ upmarket 16th district on April 12

The source said the attack happened at 1.40pm, and both victims received medical attention at the scene, before one succumbed to their wounds.

The attacker fled on a motorcycle, a police source told Reuters, adding that nothing was known about the motive for the attack.

BFM television reported that the person killed is a man and the person injured is a woman who was working as a security agent for the hospital.

‘One person died and one is seriously injured,’ a fire service source said. 

The hospital, in the upscale 16th district, is also a COVID-19 vaccination centre.