A BMW plowed into a group of soldiers in a Paris suburb Wednesday, hurting six, in what the local mayor said was "without a doubt" the work of a "terrorist."
The driver escaped but was tracked down and shot five times by a SWAT team while he was traveling on a highway about 150 miles north of Paris, officials told NBC News.
The suspect, a 36-year-old North African man who lives in another suburb of Paris, was wounded and taken to a hospital, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
French counterterorrism experts opened an investigation after the ramming attack at an army barracks in Levallois-Perret, in which three of the wounded soldiers were seriously injured.
"Without a doubt this is a terrorist attack ... he deliberately drove out to hit the soldiers," Levallois-Perret Mayor Patrick Balkany said.
