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Police shoot man dead in northern Paris

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Police shot a man dead today as he was trying to enter a police station in a northern district of Paris that is home to a large immigrant community, on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

A witness told AFP he had heard "two or three shots" in the incident that occurred a year to the day of the jihadist attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

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First Published: Jan 07 2016 | 5:42 PM IST

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