The area around the Louvre Museum in Paris was blocked off Friday after a soldier shot a man wielding a knife, according to media reports.
Le Monde reported that the incident happened at the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping center near the entrance to the world-famous museum.
Reuters said the man tried to enter the museum’s shopping mall with a suitcase before attacking the soldier. Another soldier shot and seriously wounded the assailant, Reuters said.
The attacker was shot in the legs and the soldier was injured on the arm, thelocal.fr reported
BFM TV said the man, who had two briefcases, pulled out a knife and attacked the soldier after he was refused entry to the center.
Museum officials said the Louvre was closed and that visitors who were inside at the time of the attack remained there.
Evénement grave de #sécurité publique en cours à #Paris quartier du #Louvre, priorité à l'intervention des forces de sécurité et de secours pic.twitter.com/PxTLacJk7a
— Ministère Intérieur (@Place_Beauvau) February 3, 2017
Friend sends pic from inside the #Louvre , tourists being evacuated into locked down halls pic.twitter.com/1UxMkBsmPJ
— Wang Feng (@ulywang) February 3, 2017
Source: Reports: Soldier shoots attacker near Louvre in Paris
