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Report: 1 dead and 5 injured as gunmen open fire at wedding ceremony in France

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Thionville, France:

One person was killed and five others injured in northeastern France when several masked gunmen opened fire at a wedding ceremony, police sources said on Sunday.

Sources suspect that the attack in the city of Thionville in northeastern France was linked to a score-settling between drug traffickers.

The shooting took place in a reception hall on the night of Saturday to Sunday; about a hundred people were present.

Two people were seriously injured, one of them is in critical condition.

The perpetrators fled the crime scene.

“It was during a wedding,” a police source said.

“At quarter past one in the morning, a group of people went outside to smoke in front of the hall when three heavily armed men appeared and opened fire in their direction.”

The attackers arrived in an off-road vehicle, “probably a BMW,” the source said.

It was initially unclear where the vehicle came from. Thionville is close to the border with Luxembourg and Germany.

Law enforcement officials believe the violence is a way to pay off debts related to drug trafficking.

“The target was not the wedding itself, but the people who were present at the wedding,” the source said.

A glass door riddled with bullet holes could be seen at the crime scene on Sunday morning.

In the neighboring town of Villerupt, five people were injured in shootouts between rival gangs at a drug trafficking point in May 2023.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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