Paris — (CNN) Police in Paris have shot and injured a man who tried to attack police with a hammer at the Notre Dame cathedral, the Reuters news agency reports.
Police in Paris earlier tweeted that they were responding to an incident at the square outside the cathedral and warned the public to stay away.
BFMTV reported that hundreds of people were being held inside the cathedral.
Locked inside #notre dame cathedral in #paris while police investigate attack outside against a policeman. All calm pic.twitter.com/Z4B8wUzPTV
— Nancy Soderberg (@nancysoderberg) June 6, 2017
France is still in a state of emergency following the Paris attacks in November 2015, in which 130 people were killed. The capital Paris has has a strong police presence on its streets since then.
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