A gunman on a scooter has opened fire on a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing three children and a teacher, police say.
A teenage boy was seriously injured in the attack outside the Ozar Hatorah school in the north-east of the city.
Police say there are similarities with the killings of three soldiers in two separate incidents in the same part of France last week.
All three - of North African origin - were shot by a man on a scooter.
A paratrooper out of uniform was shot dead in a residential area of Toulouse just over a week ago, while two soldiers were killed and a third wounded as they used a cashpoint in the town of Montauban, some 29 miles (46km) away, on Thursday.
But President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has gone to the scene, said it is "much too early" to know if there is a definite link.
"Whatever happens," he said, "faced with this kind of toll, we can say that the French Republic as a whole has been hit by this appalling tragedy."
The grand rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, who is travelling to the south-western city, said he was "horrified" and "stunned" by what had happened.
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Shooting at French Jewish school
that's got to be a joke.
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