France Mobilizes Hundreds Of Security Forces In Hunt For Strasbourg Shooter - Minister

France Mobilizes Hundreds of Security Forces in Hunt for Strasbourg Shooter - Minister

Hundreds of security personnel were mobilized Wednesday as search continues for a man who opened fire on a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg, the French interior minister said.

PARIS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th December, 2018) Hundreds of security personnel were mobilized Wednesday as search continues for a man who opened fire on a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg, the French interior minister said.

"A total of 720 people have been mobilized to find this individual," Christophe Castaner said in parliament after it observed a movement of silence for those slain in the shooting on Tuesday evening.

The shooter, identified as a 29-year-old local man known to security services, killed two people and a third person was left brain-dead. He fled after being confronted by soldiers. Castaner said the suspect was first charged with a crime at the age of 13.