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Children Among Dead in Jewish School Shooting in France

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GETTY W 031912 FranceJewishSchool?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1332153097108ERIC CABANIS/AFP/Getty Images(TOULOUSE, France) — A shooter opened fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, Monday morning just as students arrived, killing four people, including a 30-year-old rabbi and his two children, officials said.

The shooter, who arrived and fled from the Ozar Hatorah school on a scooter or a motorcycle, “shot at everything he could see,” according to local prosecutor Michel Valet.

The dead included Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, who taught at the school, his 3- and 6-year-old sons Gabriel and Arieh, and the school headmaster’s 8-year-old daughter, according to the Israeli newspaper Ynet.

A 17-year-old and two other students were seriously wounded.

Authorities are investigating whether the shooting is linked to two other incidents where a shooter targeted his victims while driving a motorcycle in the same area.  Last Sunday, a paratrooper out of uniform was killed by a gunman on a motorbike outside of a gym in a suburb of Toulouse.

On Thursday, two soldiers were killed and a third wounded by a shooter on a scooter as they used an ATM in Montauban, about 30 miles away.

The same caliber weapon — a .45 handgun, referred to in France as an 11.43 — was used in the shootings last week and Monday morning, police officials told local media.

“It is too early to link the different shootings, but there are similarities between these shootings: same modus operandi, same area,” French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told ABC News.  “The shooter in all these cases was very determined.”

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