TWO prison officers were shot dead in a horrific ambush while transporting an inmate in northern France.
Four armed men pounced on the cop convoy at a motorway tollbooth and helped the drug dealer prisoner to escape.
The police convoy was attacked in northern France as cops moved an inmateTwitter
Officers attend to their colleague who lies on the ground bleedingTwitter
Shocking video shows the armed gunmen, clad in black hoods and gloves, bracing to shoot at the police convoy
One of the shooters brandishes what looks like an AK 47 at the scene of the attack
The prisoner and attackers are now on the run with two vehicles, one of which was found burned and abandoned earlier today.
Three more cops were seriously injured in the horrific attack.
Mohamed A, the escaped inmate, is known to cops for drug trafficking and attempted murder.
The onslaught happened near Eure, in Normandy as the van stopped at a tollbooth in Incarville around 11am.
Footage online appeared to show police tending to a colleague as he lay bleeding on the floor.
It also shows two white police vans with their doors flung open as the one in front sits smashed up against a black car.
The motors were lined up tightly against one another and the van has what looks like a bullet hole in its windscreen.
More shocking video taken from onboard a passing bus showed several armed gunmen brandishing what looks like AK 47s.
The professional looking shooters, clad in all black with hoods and gloves, run towards the convoy as the clip turns to take in the scene.
Smoke rises from the point where the police van crashed head first into a black car.
Pools of blood cover the floor in front of the smashed vans.
Emergency services were later filmed around the tollbooth with a fire engine pulling up just metres away.
One of the cars used in the escape, a white Audi A5, was found destroyed in Vatteville.
The other, a BMW 5 headed in the direction of Louviers and Evreux.
The scene of the attack is near the town of Val-de-Reuil, on the A154 motorway.
French justice minister Eric Dupond Moretti wrote on X: “A prison convoy was attacked in Eure.
“Two of our prison officers have died, three are seriously injured.
“All my thoughts are with the victims, their families and their colleagues.
“I immediately go to the crisis unit of @justice_gouv.”
Video online appears to show emergency services gathered at the tollbooth today
There appears to be a bullet shaped hole in the glass
An officer at the scene of the attack this morningTwitter
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