Two dead in club shooting

A man who was turned away from a nightclub in the French city of Lille returned with a gun and opened fire outside the building, killing two and wounding five.

The shooting will likely lead to renewed debate about France’s gun laws, which were brought into focus by the killing of seven people in Toulouse in March by an Islamist gunman, and a spate of gang murders.

The Lille gunman killed a nightclub employee and customer at about 3am local time yesterday before fleeing the scene, said Herve Malherbe, deputy police chief for the northern region.

“The bouncer who knew the man turned him back. The man came back with a heavy caliber gun, possible a Kalashnikov, and started shooting.”

Police are searching for the gunman.