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Police quiz gunman over French train attack

– ‘Click-click-click’ –

The man began shooting at 5.50 pm (1550 GMT), train operator Thalys said.

He was arrested 10 minutes later when the train, with 554 passengers on board, stopped at Arras station in northern France, a railway spokesman said.

One of the passengers, who asked to be identified only as Damien, 35, said he had heard the gunman shooting but initially thought the sound came from a toy.

“The man stopped between two carriages, fired and it made a click-click-click sound, not at all like in the films,” he said, still clearly shocked.

French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who appeared in the 1986 cult film “Betty Blue” staring Beatrice Dalle, suffered minor injuries as he tried to activate the train’s alarm, a spokesman for SNCF said.

The gunman had probably boarded the train in Brussels, a police source said.

In May last year, four people, including two Israeli tourists, were killed when a gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.

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