Two people, including a female traffic police officer, have been shot on the southern edge of the French capital, Paris.
According to the latest reports, the woman died a short while ago.
Thursday's shooting follows a day after masked gunmen killed 12 people -including two police - in an assault on a satirical newspaper.
The country's interior minster left an emergency government meeting to travel to the scene of the latest shooting.
Paris police say it is too early to draw any connection between the shootings.
France is on its highest level of alert.
The Eiffel Tower is reportedly also off limits