PARIS: French security forces have shot and arrested a man suspected of being behind an attack on a group of soldiers on Wednesday morning in a Paris suburb, security sources told AFP.
The man, aged in his late 30s, was intercepted on a motorway north of the French capital in a vehicle used to drive into the soldiers, the sources said, asking not to be named.
Earlier, French soldiers were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret.
"Police intervention is underway. Search underway for vehicle," the Paris police department said in a Tweet.
Six soldiers were hurt, four of them lightly and two more seriously, a police department official said.
Police described the incident as an "apparently deliberate act".
France has been under a state of emergency since November 2015 and has seen a string of attacks on security forces who have been regularly targeted, particularly those guarding key tourist sites.
An 18-year-old with a history of psychological problems was arrested on Saturday at the Eiffel Tower after brandishing a knife.
He told investigators he wanted to kill a soldier, sources close to the case said.
In February, a man armed with a machete attacked four soldiers on patrol at Paris's Louvre Museum, while in April another extremist shot and killed a policeman on the Champs Elysees.
In June, a 40-year-old Algeria doctorate student who had pledged allegiance to the Daesh militant group attacked a policeman with a hammer outside Notre Dame cathedral.
