Strasbourg Shooter Killed: Christophe Castaner

Paris: The shooter, who killed three people at a Christmas market in France’s Strasbourg on Tuesday, has been killed, 48 hours after the attack, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner has confirmed. Cherif Chekatt was killed in the Neudorf-Meinau district of the city, two kilometers from where he shot passers-by and stabbed people on Tuesday. At 9 p.m. local time, “three police officers spotted an individual walking on the public highway. They arrested him and while he returned facing the police officers, he fired on them,” Castaner said in a brief press conference, reports Xinhua news agency. (IANS)

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