Three Injured in Shooting on High-Speed Train From Amsterdam to Paris

At least two victims have serious injuries, and another suffered multiple gunshot wounds, a spokesman for the SNCF (National Society of French Railways) said Friday.

However, Sliman Hamzi, an official with the police union Alliance, told the AP news agency that the man was a 26-year-old Moroccan.

Motive unknown… criminal and forensic investigators gather after an attack on a train by an assailant armed with guns and knives.

A gunman has opened fire on passengers on board a train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris, injuring three people.

Investigations… a police officer works at the train station in Arras after three people were wounded in a shooting on a high-speed train.

Michel and French President Francois Hollande have agreed to unite their efforts and cooperate, French officials said.

A third individual, known French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, was injured as well, and was said to have raised the alarm over the incident.

Cazeneuve said the American passengers “were particularly courageous and showed great bravery in very hard circumstances” and that “without their sangfroid we could have been confronted with a awful drama”.

Cazeneuve was speaking at Arras, about 115 miles north of Paris, the scene where the train was halted following the attack.

“The situation is under control, the travellers are safe”, the company said on Twitter.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office says it does not believe any British nationals are among the injured.

Thalys said on its website that several trains had been delayed after the “intervention of security forces at Arras station”.

France has remained on high-alert since Islamic extremists stormed the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s office and a Jewish supermarket in January.

“Talking about a terrorist motive would be premature at the moment”, he said. Everything is being done to shed light on this tragedy’.