The man suspected of opening fire at a Christmas market has been shot dead, the French interior minister has said.
Cherif Chekatt killed three people and injured 13 at a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday.
Minister of the interior Christophe Castaner said the the 29-year-old was killed in the Neudorf-Meinau area of the city after a police operation was launched at about 9pm on Thursday.
Three police officers had stumbled across a man they had believed was Chekatt and when they went to arrest him he turned to fire on them, Mr Castaner said.
The officers then shot and killed him.
A French official was earlier quoted by the Associated Press as saying the suspect had been armed with a pistol and a knife.
