{"id":118277,"date":"2021-04-13T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T01:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118277"},"modified":"2021-04-13T09:21:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T01:21:22","slug":"france-shooting-one-dead-one-injured-in-paris-hospital-police-ruled-out-terrorist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118277","title":{"rendered":"France shooting: One dead, one injured in Paris hospital; police ruled out terrorist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/h20oehj_paris-hospital-shooting-afp_625x300_12_April_21.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/h20oehj_paris-hospital-shooting-afp_625x300_12_April_21-696x428.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An unidentified gunman shot dead a man and badly injured a woman outside a Paris hospital on Monday before fleeing the scene on a motorbike, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials ruled out a terrorist attack, with witness statements appearing to point to a targeted killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attacker fired several shots at the Henry Dunant private geriatric hospital run by the Red Cross in the upmarket 16th district, investigators said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne person died and one is seriously injured,\u201d a fire service source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two victims were taken into the hospital for treatment after the shooting which occurred in the early afternoon. The man died from his wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The injured woman works as a security guard at the hospital, which runs a Covid-19 vaccination centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paris prosecutors said they were treating the shooting as a murder and an attempted murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>District mayor Francis Szpiner told reporters that the attacker had fired several rounds at the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt would seem that the security guard was hit by a stray bullet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Szpiner said the shooting was \u201cneither a terrorist attack nor an attack on the vaccination centre\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police cordoned off the area around the hospital, and forensic experts were examining the scene for clues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the attack, the hospital turned away several people who had been waiting for doctors visits, admitting only priority patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hospital is situated close to the river Seine about four kilometres south of the Eiffel Tower and near the Parc des Princes football stadium.<span style=\"background-color: rgb(232, 234, 235);\"><b> &#8212;\u00a0NNN-AGENCIES<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An unidentified gunman shot dead a man and badly injured a woman outside a Paris hospital on Monday before fleeing the scene on a motorbike, police said. Officials ruled out a terrorist attack, with witness statements appearing to point to a targeted killing. The attacker fired several shots at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}