A gunman on a motorbike shot dead four people in Toulouse, France.

A gunman on a motorbike shot dead at least four people, including three children, at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday, just days after three soldiers were killed in similar shootings in the same area of southwest France, the Reuters reports.

The Sky News informs that a religious education teacher, his two sons, three and six, and a 10-year-old girl all died in the attack at the Ozar Hatorah school in Jolimont, Toulouse, on Monday morning.
A 17-year-old boy was also seriously injured in the shooting, which was carried out by a gunman riding a motorbike.
The teacher has been named by his family as Jonathan Sanders, an Israeli-French dual citizen originally from Jerusalem who moved to France last September, the Reuters reports.

"The attacker was shooting people outside the school, then pursued children into the school, before fleeing on a heavy motorbike," Valet told reporters.

The soldiers, one of Caribbean and two of Muslim origin, also been killed in drive-by shootings and prosecutors opened an anti-terrorism investigation into all three attacks although it was not clear whether the motive was political or purely racist.
President Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, the Socialist opposing him in his uphill bid for re-election in May, both rushed to the scene.

Israel on Monday said it was "deeply shocked" and "horrified" by a shooting attack at a Jewish school in France, in which an Israeli-French dual citizen and three children were killed, the News 24 reports.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was "deeply shocked" over the incident, a statement from his bureau said.
"Only a person possessing demonic evil could conduct such a terrible murder of small children at a school," it quoted him as saying.

Israeli Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said the attack was against Jews and Israel and, as such should alert the international community, the timesofindia.indiatimes.com said.