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Man commits suicide before Paris's Notre Dame

Xinhua | Updated: 2013-05-22 09:25

PARIS - A man shot himself dead in front of Paris' iconic Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon, local media reported.

The man, in his 50s, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head at around 16:00 local time (14:00 GMT), local radio RTL said quoting police sources.

He died twenty minutes later.

Police have evacuated the Nortre Dame Cathedral.

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