Manhunt in France After Armed Assailants Kill Guards and Free Prisoner Mohamed Amra in Shocking Ambush
In a shocking and violent terror attack this morning, armed assailants ambushed a prison van at the Incarville tollbooth in Eure. Around 11 a.m., a black Peugeot 5008 rammed the police van as it emerged from the tollbooth on a major highway about 85 miles northwest of Paris.
Hooded men with automatic weapons leaped from the car, encircling the van and firing on it with unhurried precision for more than two minutes.
When they were through, two prison guards were dead—the first to be killed in the line of duty in 32 years—and three more were wounded. The still-handcuffed prisoner, Mohamed Amra, known as “The Fly” or “High-Flying Bandit,” escaped, setting off a manhunt involving several hundred officers.