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Strasbourg: Christmas Market Attacker Killed

A police unit came across Cherif Chekatt in a Strasbourg street

French police have shot dead the man who attacked Strasbourg's Christmas market on Tuesday, the interior minister has said. A police unit came across Cherif Chekatt in a Strasbourg street and shot him after he opened fire.

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