At least four killed in shooting at Jewish school in France Brunon Martin / AP Police officers and firefighters gather at the site of a shooting outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, Monday. By msnbc.com staff, NBC News and news services Updated at 6.10 a.m ET: A man opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, killing at least four people, including three children, officials said. A rabbi at the school, identified as Rahamim Sabag, told Israel's channel two television that the dead were a 30-year old rabbi who taught at the school, the rabbi's five-year-old son and two eight-year old children, one of them the daughter of the school's principal, Reuters reported. Le Figaro newspaper (website in French) said that the shooter fled the scene on a black scooter, according to NBC News. Two other people were seriously injured in the attack on private school Ozar Hatorah, which is located in Jolimont district of Toulouse, in the northeast of the city, according to Reuters. French media said that security was being tightened at all Jewish schools in the country. I saw two people dead in front of the school, an adult and a child ... Inside, it was a vision of horror, the bodies of two small children," a distraught father whose child attends the school told RTL radio, Reuters reported. I did not find my son, apparently he fled when he saw what happened. How can they attack something as sacred as a school, attack children only sixty centimetres (about two feet) tall?" he added. The shootings come days after three soldiers were killed in two separate shootings in the same region by a man who escaped from the scene by scooter, Reuters reported. BFM said that the gun used in the attack at the school was of the same caliber as that used in the soldiers' shootings. 'Similarities' to soldier shootings French Interior Minister Claude Gueant, who reportedly broke off a visit to another part of France to go to Toulouse, said that "one can't fail to notice the similarities between the attacks on our troops in Toulouse and in Montauban and then this horrible attack on children this morning," according to a Sky News report. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was also on his way to Toulouse Monday, NBC News said, citing local media reports. France's chief rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, said he was "horrified" by the incident, according to BFM's website (in French). Israel's foreign ministry also expressed dismay. "We are horrified by this attack and we trust the French authorities to shed full light on this tragedy and bring the perpetrators of these murders to justice," Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told the AFP news agency. Investigators said Friday that the murders of two French paratroopers in southwest France Thursday were linked to the killing of another soldier in Toulouse at the weekend, after they discovered the same weapon was used in both crimes. Frederic Lancelot / AP Police officers and soldiers are seen at the site of the shooting of three French soldiers in Mautauban, southern France, Thursday March 15. Two uniformed French soldiers were shot dead and a third seriously injured by a masked gunman Thursday as they tried to withdraw money from a cash machine in the town of Montauban, close to the barracks of the 17th paratroop regiment. At the weekend, a 30-year-old soldier in civilian clothes was shot dead in the nearby city of Toulouse. "A link has been made with certainty between the two events in Toulouse and Montauban," he told a press conference on Friday.