Handout photo released by Paris' judiciary police taken from surveillance footage shows a suspect gunman, November 18, 2013. REUTERS/Paris Judiciary Police/Handout via Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - Police were hunting a lone gunman on the loose in Paris on Monday after he opened fire with a shotgun at the offices of a left-wing newspaper and a major bank before hijacking a car to take him to the Champs-Elysees avenue.
The assailant burst into the office of the Liberation daily in central Paris, shooting and seriously wounding a photographer's assistant before fleeing, police and staff at the newspaper said.
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