Manhunt under way in France after two prisonofficers killed in prisoner escape | BBC News

At least two French prison officers have been killed inan ambush on a prison van near Rouen in Normandy,France.

The prisoner was being taken from court to a prison and escaped after the attack.

Three other officers were seriously injured after beingshot with "heavy weapons", the French justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti has said.

Several hundred police officers and gendarmes areinvolved in the manhunt. French prosecutors havenamed the inmate as Mohamed Amra, who waspreviously convicted of aggravated robbery andcharged with abduction leading to death.