Paris police have shot and killed a man who tried to enter a police station with a knife and a fake suicide belt, CNN reports; the man was reportedly shouting "Allahu Akbar." Several schools in the area went into lock down as a precaution and The Associated Press reports police have cleared "hundreds of people" from the neighborhood in fear that other assailants could be at large.
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