French police are searching for a masked gunman suspected of stabbing an elderly woman to death in a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France, authorities have said.
An unusually large police operation was launched to search for the suspected attacker, believed to be armed with a shotgun and a knife. The identity of the assailant and motive for the killing are unclear.
The press service for the gendarmes, or military police, couldn't say whether the incident was linked to a terrorist act.
