Man opens fire near supermarket west of Paris

PARIS: Two people wereseriously wounded in a shooting outside a supermarket west of Paris on Monday, police said.

The shooter, a man in his 70s, holed up in his apartment after the shooting at a Super U store in the town of Le Port-Marly, the official said. Special police intervention units surrounded the area, and the man quickly turned himself in, the official said.

The official, not authorised to be publicly named according to police rules, said the shooting Monday was the result of a private dispute and had nothing to do with terrorism. France remains on high alert after recent extremist attacks.