A 48-year-old man fired on officers trying to rescue a woman from a house in a hamlet near Saint-Just, according to a local report

Three gendarmes have been shot dead, and a fourth wounded, in central France, country’s national police force has said. The shooting reportedly took place while officers were attending a domestic violence incident.

A 48-year-old man shot the officers on Tuesday night at an isolated hamlet near Saint-Just in the Puy-de-Dome region, after police tried to rescue a woman who had taken refuge in a house, according to news channel LCI.

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