Two prison officers were killed and three other people were seriously injured after a convoy was targeted in northwestern France this morning.
Hundreds of police officers have been deployed after armed men attacked a prison convoy in France - with a convict who is reportedly nicknamed 'The Fly' having escaped during the raid. Two prison officers were killed and three other people were seriously injured after the reported 'ramming car attack' on a motorway in Incarville in the northwestern France region of Eure.
A prison source has told Le Parisien that the escaped inmate had tried to saw the bars off his cell two days ago. He had reportedly been placed in solitary confinement and his surveillance level had been raised after the escape attempt. Gerald Darmanin, France's interior minister, has said 'several hundred police officers' have been deployed to 'find these criminals' following the attack on the convoy today.
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