French police look for shooter in the wake of murdering at friars' retirement home

French police are looking for a covered furnished man who burst into a retirement home for evangelists close Montpellier in southern France on Thursday night and killed one lady before escaping.

The inhabitants of the home in Montferrier-sur-Lez in the Hérault were protected however the police pursuit is continuous.

Examiners said they had no proof at this phase to propose the assault was fear related. The man was not known to powers, they said.

"Until further notice, there is just a single casualty," Montpellier prosecutor Christophe Barret told Agence France-Presse. "For the minute there is no specific confirmation about the thought process in this wrongdoing."

Barret told correspondents that a lady who works at the retirement home called police on Thursday night to state she had been assaulted. At the point when the officers arrived, they found the body of another lady, choked and tied up outside the working with three cut injuries, the gendarme representative said.

It is thought the lady was an occupant of the three-story retirement home.

Guide of Montferrier-sur-Lez

The laborer who cautioned police did not endure genuine wounds but rather was profoundly shaken, and nobody else at the habitation was hurt, the prosecutor said in broadcast comments carried on the site of Midi Libre daily paper.

Inhabitants of the house "are elderly, with a normal age of 75, albeit some are more than 90", said Alain Berthet, a neighborhood councilor in Montferrier-sur-Luz. A large number of the inhabitants oblige help to walk, he said.

The secretary general of the French Priests' Gathering, Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, said in a Twitter message: "Our supplications today evening time go to the lady who lost her life in this assault on a retirement home."

There were around 60 occupants, who included nuns and previous teachers and in addition ministers.

The Paris against psychological militant examinations unit is not running the examination now. Nearby police alluded to a "criminal demonstration".

Around two hours after the aggressor burst into the home, more than twelve police and crisis vehicles lined the streets close to the home, while police set up barriers to check vehicles going through the region.

An extensive security border, extending for a few hundred meters, had been set up and officers from world class equipped unit Attack were on the scene.