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Marseille – A woman and a man, both in their twenties, were killed in a shooting, while three others were injured late on Saturday in French Mediterranean city Marseille, prosecutors told AFP.
"The five people were in their car in the car park of a McDonald's when a vehicle pulled up alongside, killing the driver and the front passenger with bursts of fire from a Kalashnikov" assault rifle, the city's chief prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said on Sunday.
Of the three wounded passengers in the rear – two men and one woman – two were seriously hurt, they added.
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All three men in the car were known to police for involvement in the drug trade and violence in the region around the southern city of Toulon, Bessone said, while the women had no criminal record.
The shooting took place just before 23:00 (22:00 GMT) in Marseille's 16th district, one of the poorest areas of France's second-largest city.
Police are investigating for murder and attempted murder as part of a criminal gang.
'Likely' getaway vehicle torched
One of the wounded men, a 29-year-old struck in the chest by bullets, remains critical, while one of the women lost her thumb.
The third passenger sustained only light injuries.
Police found shell casings from the 7.62-millimetre ammunition used in Kalashnikov rifles at the scene.
A vehicle that could "likely" belong to the shooters was found burned out close to the site of the attack, prosecutors said.
