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A gunman on a motorbike has opened fire in a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, killing four people including three children.

Police said that one adult and three children, aged three, six and 10, were killed with an adult teacher.

The shooting reportedly occurred at around 8am local time as children waited at a drop-off point near to the Lyceé Ozar Hatorah, which has around 200 students. It is part of a network of 13 institutions which teaches more than 4,000 students across France.

Le Monde said that the dead included a rabbi who taught at the school and his two sons. The French newspaper said the man was a French-Israeli from Jerusalem.

Another rabbi, Rahamim Sabag, told Israeli reporters for Channel 2 that the other victim was the headmaster's daughter.

The city was said to be on "lockdown" as police hunted the killer, who has also been linked to two other recent attacks on soldiers in the region. Safety fences were put up in front of some schools, French media siad.

Toulouse prosecutor Michel Valet said: "He shot at everything he could see, children and adults. Some children were chased into the school."

One witness whose child attends the school described "a vision of horror" in the aftermath of the shooting.

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