Photo: AFPAFP · 8 Sep 2016, 22:51Published: 08 Sep 2016 22:51 GMT+02:00French police investigating the discovery a car containing six gas cylinders near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Thursday arrested three female suspects said to have been planning new acts of violence, shooting one of them in the process. Police said earlier they were searching for the two daughters of the owner of the grey Peugeot 607 that was found abandoned on Sunday near Notre Dame cathedral, which draws millions of visitors every year. A bar employee working near Notre Dame had first raised the alert on Sunday after noticing a gas cylinder on the back seat of the parked car, police said. Although the cylinder on the back seat was empty, five full cylinders were discovered in the boot of the car. Photographs of the car after it was discovered showed its boot open and the gas cylinders placed on the ground in a quiet side street opposite the cathedral.

Source: The Local September 08, 2016 20:48 UTC