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A man shot dead by police in Paris after a history teacher was decapitated was an ‘Islamic terrorist’, President Emmanuel Macron said this evening.

The teacher is suspected to have been targeted outside a school earlier today because he had used cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed in the classroom.

The victim was killed near a school in Conflans St Honorine, around 25 miles north of the French capital at around 5pm local time.

The killer then fled to the nearby town of Eragny-sur-Oise, two miles away, where he refused to surrender.

Police shot the armed suspect multiple times, according to reports from the scene.

The attacker – said to be an 18-year-old – reportedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ in the street before he was gunned down by officers.