WEDDING TERROR
At least one dead & five injured after Kalashnikov-wielding masked gang open fire at wedding ceremony in France
The shooters have now fled the scene
AT LEAST one person is dead and five are injured after a Kalashnikov-wielding masked gang opened fired on a wedding ceremony in France.
A hundred people were gathered last night in Thionville, Lorraine, for a wedding when the heavily-armed gang burst into the hall around 1am, French media reported.
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The offenders were hooded men dressed in black and equipped with heavy weapons and a shotgun.
They reportedly fled in a BMW - with French police now searching for them.
Four people were hit by bullets with a man aged around 30 years old dying on his way to hospital and another three left in a serious condition, Republican Lorraine reported.
A pregnant woman was also injured in the attack as well as a man who was injured from shards of glass.
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Sources said the shooting was a "settling of scores" between drug traffickers, AFP reported.
The source said: "The wedding was not targeted as such, it was people who were at the wedding.
"At a quarter past one in the morning, a group of people went outside to smoke in front of the hall, and then three heavily armed men arrived and opened fire in their direction."
A glass door pierced with bullet holes could be seen at the scene on Sunday morning.
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Thionville is situated close to the borders of Luxembourg and Germany in northern France.
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