Police station outside Paris targeted in fireworks attack

PARIS: Around 40 people staged an hour-long fireworks attack against a police station outside Paris early Sunday, authorities said, the latest in a string of incidents targeting security forces in recent months.

Two officers were on a cigarette break outside the station in Champigny-sur-Marne, around 12 kilometres (8 miles) east of the capital, when the assailants, some carrying steel bars, suddenly arrived shortly before midnight.