(UDHAYAM, PARIS) – Security forces have evacuated an area around the Louvre museum in central Paris, after reports of a potential attacker being shot by a soldier.
The French soldier reportedly opened fire on and wounded a man armed with a knife who was trying to enter the Louvre, a police source said.
Another police source said the man had been trying to get into the museum’s underground shop with a suitcase.
Police said the area had been evacuated.
The interior ministry said on twitter the incident was “serious”.
A spokewoman for Louvre said the museum was “closed for the moment” but would not confirm reports it had been evacuated.
A Reuters witness at the scene said police had cordoned off access to the museum.
France has been hit by a series of militant Islamist attacks over the past two years, foreign media reports.
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