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Manhunt on for convict freed in deadly attack on prison convoy in France

Hundreds of officers have been mobilized in France to search for the escaped prisoner and those behind the attack that killed two guards.

By Leo Sands

Ellen Francis

and

Bryan Pietsch

Updated May 14, 2024 at 12:59 p.m. EDT|Published May 14, 2024 at 9:03 a.m. EDT

Forensics staff work at the site of a ramming attack that took place late Tuesday morning in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France. (Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images)

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French police launched a massive manhunt Tuesday after an attack on a prison convoy left an inmate on the run and two guards dead.

Hundreds of officers have been mobilized as the search continued for the escaped prisoner and those behind the attack Tuesday morning in France’s northern Eure region, west of Paris. The attack seriously injured three other prison guards, France’s justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said on social media.