By BI: A Moroccan MUSLIM gunman, who opened fire with an assault rifle onboard a high-speed train was taken down by a group of US Marines who were traveling on the service. The Muslim terrorist, known by French intelligence services, is understood to have been overheard loading the Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle in the toilet by the un-armed Marines.
This Daily Mail article does not confirm that the gunman is a Muslim, but breaking reports on radio do. If you enlarge the below photo of the gunman here: Daily Mail, he looks like a Muslim of Moroccan origin.
Daily Mail Three people were injured when the MUSLIM opened fire, but he was soon forced to the ground and detained. The MUSLIM man was arrested by police near the town of Arras in northern France.
Train company Thalys confirmed the incident happened. A spokesman said: ‘The situation is under control, the travellers are safe. The train stopped and the emergency services are on site.’
French police recovered at least nine full magazines of ammunition from the suspect’s backpack
A report on Twitter said that three US Marines detained the Muslim gunman until emergency services arrived. French newspaper Le Monde is reporting that one Briton and one American may be among the injured.
The motives behind the attack were not immediately known, although a spokesman for the interior minister said: ‘It is too early to speak of a a Muslim terrorist link’. (That’s code for he is a Muslim but we don’t know if he is a lone wolf or affiliated with terrorists)
A spokesman for the French state rail company SNCF said that the assailant was armed with guns and knives but gave no further details about the attack. The spokesman had said earlier that three people were injured, two of them seriously, and that at least one suffered gunshot wounds.
An injured man is helped from Arras railway station following a shooting incident on a train to Paris from
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