___1:45 a.m.Strasbourg police are starting to release thousands of people confined in buildings in the area of a deadly terrorist attack near the French city’s Christmas market. The mayor of Strasbourg says the gunman behind the fatal shootings near the French city’s Christmas market got inside a security zone to stage the attack. Ries said in a Facebook post the famed Christmas market would be closed Wednesday and reopened after that, He is considering closing schools as well. Residents of central Strasbourg describe hearing a series of gunshots and screaming in the street during an attack near a Christmas market that killed four people. ___10 p.m.France’s interior minister says that two people have been killed and up to eight wounded in a shooting near Strasbourg’s Christmas market.

Source: Washington Post December 12, 2018 00:42 UTC