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A gunman has opened fire on a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing at least two children and an adult, police say.
At least two people were also injured in the attack outside the Ozar Hatorah school in the north-east of the city.
Police are now hunting for the gunman, who witnesses said was riding a black scooter.
The attack comes days after three soldiers were shot dead by a man on a scooter in the same part of France.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, his education minister and interior minister are travelling to Toulouse.
The grand rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, who is also on his way to the city, said he was "horrified" and "stunned" by what had happened.
LockdownMonday's attack happened as children and their parents were arriving at the Ozar Hatorah school, in the Joliment area of the city, for the start of the school day.
The French television network BFM said the dead included a school teacher, his six-year-old daughter and a 17-year-old school boy.
Local residents have immediately linked the shootings with last week's attacks on the soldiers.
A 30-year-old paratrooper was gunned down in a residential area of Toulouse just over a week ago, while two soldiers were killed and a third wounded as they used a cashpoint in the town of Montauban, some 29 miles (46km) away, on Thursday.
Christopher Bockman, a freelance journalist in Toulouse, told the BBC that the soldiers who had been targeted were of ethnic origin and it appeared as if the gunman is deliberately targeting ethnic minorities in the area.
He said the city was in lockdown as police scour the streets for the culprit.
Interior Minister Claude Gueant has ordered security to be tightened around all French Jewish schools.
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