French military police on manhunt after killing at monks' home
PARIS -- French police are searching for a masked gunman after an elderly woman was stabbed to death in a retirement home for monks in southern France, the national gendarme service said Friday.
An unusually large police operation was launched to search for the suspected attacker, believed to be armed with a shotgun and a knife. The identity of the assailant and motive for the killing were unclear.
The press service for the gendarmes, or military police, couldn’t say whether the incident was linked to a terrorist act.
A gendarme service spokesman said early Friday that more than 100 members of the security forces were dispatched to the village of Montferrier-sur-Lez, near the city of Montpellier in the southern tip of France, after being alerted by a guard at the monks’ residence. The spokesman was not authorized to be publicly named.
The body of the woman was found gagged and tied up outside the building and with three stab wounds, the spokesman said. The circumstances of the killing are under investigation.
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More evil; at this point, we are not being told much on the nature of this attack.
