A massive manhunt is underway in France after armed assailants ambushed a prison convoy on Tuesday, killing two prison officers and seriously injuring three others. The attackers freed an inmate, believed to be a suspected drug lord, during the assault. The French justice minister has vowed that the police will capture the perpetrators. The incident has triggered protests by prison guards across the country, and several hundred officers are involved in the search for the escaped convict and the armed gang responsible for the ambush.
Hundreds of French police launched a manhunt after a gang ambushed prison guards, killing two of them, and freed a convict. https://t.co/urBsB1n5RS
A massive manhunt was underway in #France for an armed gang that ambushed a prison convoy, killing two prison officers, seriously injuring three others and springing the inmate they were escorting. https://t.co/OczssubHdU
A massive manhunt is underway in France for an escaped prisoner and the armed gang that sprung him and killed two prison officers as he was being transported back to jail on Tuesday. https://t.co/5LZ3inGpiJ
Hundreds of police officers in France are searching for an escaped inmate and the armed assailants who freed him during an ambush of a prison convoy on Tuesday. The attack left two guards dead and set off protests by prison guards around the country. https://t.co/3ztSa0skNx
A manhunt is underway in France, after two prison officers were killed and three others were injured when armed men ambushed a convoy carrying a suspected drug lord. https://t.co/PkujabkZeI https://t.co/cb8xLxtsoO
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The French authorities said that armed assailants attacked a prison convoy, killed two guards and freed an inmate, setting off a vast manhunt involving several hundred officers. https://t.co/DNHub6rZ9W https://t.co/GstZaa9BxE
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A manhunt was underway in France after two prison officers were killed and three others injured in an attack on a van that was carrying a convict who managed to escape amid the carnage. https://t.co/nFbvOsrL7T
A massive manhunt is underway in France after armed men ambushed a prison van, killed two guards and freed an inmate. France's justice minister swore police would capture them. READ MORE: https://t.co/ylWSw9w2bW