Gunman on loose in Paris after newspaper, bank shootings

Credit: Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls (C) speaks to the media surrounded by Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe (2ndL), Paris deputy mayor Anne Hidalgo (L), Nicolas Demorand (3rdR), newspaper Liberation's director, and Fabrice Rousselot (4thR), Liberation's editorial manager, next to the newspaper headquarters in Paris, November 18, 2013.

'I can confirm that a man opened fire ... Nobody was injured. The police are on the spot and investigating,' the spokeswoman said in response to a query from Reuters.

The incident followed an earlier one in which an assailant shot and seriously wounded one person at the central Paris offices of left-wing newspaper Liberation, prompting police to launch a manhunt and deploy protection outside the offices of other media outlets in the French capital.

(Reporting by Lionel Laurent; Writing by Brian Love; Editing by Paul Taylor)