A French soldier on Friday shot and wounded a man armed with a knife after he tried to enter the Louvre museum in central Paris carrying a suitcase, police sources said, APA reported citing Reuters.
One source said the man had been trying to get into the museum's shopping mall and had attacked another soldier before being shot and seriously wounded.
Police said the area had been evacuated and the interior ministry said on Twitter the incident was "serious".
Louvre officials said the museum was closed and that visitors already inside when the attack took place were being kept there.
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