French soldier shoots machete-wielding attacker at Louvre

Officers cordon off an area outside the Louvre Museum near the shopping area where a man attacked soldiers in Paris on Friday. Christophe Ena/AP
A machete-wielding man shouted “Allahu Akbar” and attacked a security patrol near the Louvre Museum on Friday, prompting a soldier to shoot the man, wounding him, the head of Paris police says.
The attack was “obviously of a terrorist nature,” French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says, according to France 24.
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