Terror In France: Soldier Fires At Machete Wielding Man - Foreign Office Gives Travel Advice

A man wielding a machete and shouting "Allahu akhbar" has been shot after attacking a soldier outside the Louvre in Paris, police say. Security forces evacuated an area around the museum in central Paris on Friday morning after a man was shot when he pulled out a weapon and tried to attack an army patrol. 

He was reportedly trying to enter the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping mall under the museum to commit more havoc it is suspected.  The man was carrying two bags when he was stopped by soldiers who were patrolling the area as part security operation put in place after a spate of deadly terror attacks in France. 

"That's when he got the knife out and that's when he tried to stab the soldier," Yves Lefebvre, a police union official, said. He was then shot five times.

“The man is on the ground and is not moving,” one police source told Le Parisien newspaper. Some reports said he had been killed.