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A French soldier guarding the Louvre in Paris has shot a man who tried to attack a security patrol with a machete shouting "Allahu Akbar", police say. No explosives were found in the two backpacks of the man, who was conscious when he was taken into custody, Cadot said. Police said the area had been evacuated and the interior ministry said on Twitter the incident was “serious.”

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Louvre officials said the museum was closed and that visitors already inside when the attack took place were being kept there. French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve described the attack as “terrorist in nature.” The Paris prosecutor announced a terror investigation

About 250 visitors who were in the Louvre museum at the time were taken to a secure area and were being evacuated in small groups after checks were carried out. France is on high alert after a series of terror attacks, including a coordinated attack in Paris in Nov. 2015 that killed 130 people, and a truck attack in Nice in July that killed more than 80 people.
A French Army soldier shoots and wounds a man armed with a knife who was trying to enter an underground shopping area near the Louvre in Paris. The museum was evacuated.