Turkey condemns vehicle attack on French soldiers

By Satuk Bugra Kutlugun

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey on Thursday condemned a vehicle attack which injured six French soldiers near Paris.

In a statement the Foreign Ministry said: “We are saddened by the vehicle-ramming attack at Levallois-Perret, near Paris on Wednesday which injured six soldiers.”

"We condemn this heinous attack aiming to disrupt peace in France and wish a speedy recovery to the wounded," it added.

Prosecutors in Paris have opened an investigation into the incident that the French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said had been carried out by a lone attacker.

Three of the injured soldiers are in serious condition, but their lives are not in danger, the French Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.