Two prison officers were killed and three others seriously injured after a convoy was targeted in northwestern France this morning.
Hundreds of police are hunting armed men who attacked a prison van in France - with a convict reportedly nicknamed 'The Fly' escaping. Two male prison officers were shot dead and three others seriously injured during the ambush on a motorway in Incarville, northwest France, at around 9am. Eric Dupond-Moretti, France's justice minister, said one of the officers leaves behind a wife who was five months pregnant, while the other was a 21-year-old father-of-two.
He had reportedly appeared before a judge in Rouen on Tuesday morning, accused of attempted homicide. The attack on the van took place while he was being transported back to prison in Evreux, according to reports in France. Who is 'The Fly'? A prison source told Le Parisien that Amra tried to saw the bars off his cell a few days ago - with the convict reportedly put in solitary confinement.
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