<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Three French prison officers were killed and two others wounded today in an attack on a prison van transporting an inmate who escaped, a police source told AFP.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ramming attack took place late morning at a road toll in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France, another source close to the case added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The inmate was being transported between the towns of Rouen and Evreux in Normandy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A police source said that the attack was carried out by a team of several individuals who arrived in two vehicles and themselves later fled.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of them was also wounded, a police source said, but it was not immediately clear how many attackers there were in total, reports AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti confirmed the attack on the prison convoy and said on X he was immediately heading to a crisis cell at his ministry.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas&nbsp;</div>