Three Killed by Gunman in French Town
A Frenchman in his 70s, his 69-year-old wife and their 40-year-old daughter were killed Monday when a motorist armed with a gun opened fire on their car in northern France, officials said.
The gunman fled the scene after the shooting, which took place late afternoon next to a busy square in the town of Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk.
A suspect, a Frenchman in his 40s, was later arrested in nearby Belgium after allegedly trying to commit suicide by ingesting an overdose of pills, the local French prosecutor, Eric Fouard, told Agence France-Presse.
He added that the arrested man was believed to be the ex of the killed daughter.
The elderly Frenchman and his daughter died immediately in the shooting. The man's wife succumbed to her serious wounds after being taken to hospital.
Source: Agence France Presse
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