Three French prison officers reported killed as inmate escapes van

Two others wounded in attack on vehicle transporting prisoner in Rouen area, police source says

Three French prison officers were killed and two others wounded in an attack on a prison van transporting an inmate who escaped, a police source told AFP.

The hit-and-run attack took place late on Tuesday morning at a road toll in Incarville, in the Eure region of northern France, another source close to the case added.