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| Americans Foil Gunman on French Train, Officials Say | Americans Foil Gunman on French Train, Officials Say |
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| PARIS — A gunman opened fire aboard a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, wounding at least three people before two American passengers subdued him, French officials said. | |
| The Americans were not immediately identified, but France’s interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said they “were particularly courageous and showed great bravery in very difficult circumstances.’’ | |
| One of the Americans was among the wounded in the attack, which the French antiterror police were investigating. | |
| Capt. Jeff Davis, a Defense Department spokesman in Washington, said that an American military member was on the train and had been wounded in the episode. He said Pentagon officials had not yet confirmed the name or rank or service, or whether the second American also was a service member. | |
| The attacker began shooting while the train was passing through Belgium, French news reports said, and it was stopped in the northern French city of Arras. | The attacker began shooting while the train was passing through Belgium, French news reports said, and it was stopped in the northern French city of Arras. |
| The gunman was detained and was described by French officials as a 26-year-old of Moroccan origin armed with an automatic weapon and a knife. | The gunman was detained and was described by French officials as a 26-year-old of Moroccan origin armed with an automatic weapon and a knife. |
| SNCF, France’s national railway operator, said all passengers had been evacuated from the train and that the police had secured the station in Arras, which is about 115 miles north of Paris. | |
| A French newspaper, La Voix du Nord, said one of the passengers had been the actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, and that he had suffered a hand injury. |