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Gunman had 270 rifle bullets and bottle of petrol: Prosecutor

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The man whose attack on a high-speed train in France was thwarted by passengers was carrying 270 bullets for his assault rifle and a bottle of petrol, a French prosecutor said today.

Ayoub El Khazzani, 25, was also carrying a Luger pistol and a box-cutter, and had watched a jihadist video on YouTube on his mobile phone before carrying out the attack, prosecutor Francois Molins said.

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First Published: Aug 25 2015 | 9:48 PM IST

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