Shooting at French School in Grasse

He said checks were underway on the possibility of a second assailant.

“The first investigations suggest he had consulted American-style mass killings’ videos”, the spokesman said.

The same day in France, a letter bomb exploded at the International Monetary Fund office in Paris, injuring one employee.

One student reported hearing four gunshots, while another student, speaking to Nice Matin (in French), described hearing three loud bangs before turning and seeing a shooter.

Local police told people on Twitter to stay home and the area around the school has been cordoned off.

Students are believed to have been hiding nearby. “There was panic and the students took refuge in the [neighboring] supermarket”, the source said. We’re not used to it, we hear about these things in Paris but not here.

Grasse is known as France’s perfume capital.

“Around 12:40, I was sitting just finishing eating. He was gentle and low-key key, not a nasty guy”.

Grasse, a town in southern France, has witnessed a shooting incident at high school, in which two students have been injured.

The country has been on edge since a terror attack in November 2015 left 134 people dead in Paris.

The BBC has reported that the Tocqueville school in the French town of Grasse has been stormed by individuals carrying arms. Officials are still trying to determine whether there are any casualties.

Grasse, a centre for perfume manufacturing, is roughly 44km from Nice, where a terror attack in July of past year killed 86 people.