New Terror in Paris: Female police officer shot dead & street cleaner shot in the face.

Another new terror attack has hit Paris.A policewoman was shot in the back and killed and a hero street cleaner was shot in the face as he tried to grapple with the gunman in a second horrific attack on the streets of Paris within 24 hours.

The officer, who has not been named, died this morning after being attacked just before dawn in Montrouge, a suburb in the south of the French capital.

A street cleaner who stepped in to try and disarm the gunmen is also said to be in a serious condition, after he was shot in the face.

The shooting came less than 24 hours after the massacre at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 dead - including two police officers.
It is not known if the two attacks are linked.France's top security official Bernard Cazenueve said the officer - reported to be a trainee - had stopped to investigate a traffic accident when the firing started.

'There was an officer in front of a white car and a man running away who shot,' said Ahmed Sassi, who saw the shooting from his home nearby.

He said the shooter wore dark clothes but no mask. 'It didn't look like a big gun because he held it with one hand,' Sassi said.

The gunman  who is understood to have been armed with an M5 assault rifle  blasted the officer.

The street cleaner who was shot in the face was one of two men who tried to grapple with the man during the incident.

The cleaner was said to be in a serious condition by one police source, while another said emergency services had tried to revive the police officer at the scene 'but she was in a very bad way'. 

Another witness, William Thomas, a 19-year-old who lives close to this morning's attack, said: 'I was woken up by the first three shots.

'Then I heard someone shout "Take that" and there were another two shots. It was before 8am.'

The automatic gunfire was followed by the arrival of numerous special operations police, accompanied by emergency services.

A man who appeared to be of North African origin was seen running away from the scene. He was thought to be wearing a bullet proof vest.

'Emergency workers tried to revive the woman officer at the scene but she was in a very bad way,' an officer at the scene had said earlier.