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) on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 and saw the death of 4 people in a travellers' camp; a policeman and three people from the same family (a six-month-old baby, his mother and his father).
The suspect also seriously wounded a three-year-old child, before police shot and injured him as they carried out an arrest. The injured were all taken to the Amiens University Hospital by helicopter.
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