France hunts Christmas market attacker

The manhunt continues for the gunman who killed two people and wounded 12 others at a Christmas market in Strasbourg in yet another terror attack in France.

A woman lights a candle near the Strasbourg Christmas market. Source: Sebastian Gollnow/DPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

A massive manhunt involving hundreds of police and soldiers is under way for a suspected extremist who yelled "Allahu Akbar" during a shooting spree around one of Europe's most famous Christmas markets.

The assault in the eastern French city of Strasbourg killed two, left one person brain dead and injured 12 others, authorities say.

Police union officials identified the suspected assailant as Cherif Chekatt, a 29-year-old with a long police record for crimes including armed robbery, and monitored as a suspected religious radical by French intelligence services.

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