"Christmas market"

A relieved Strasbourg prepared to reopen its popular Christmas market on Friday after French police shot dead the gunman who killed three people there in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

People light candles and leave signs and flowers on a place close to the Christmas Market where a shooting happened in Strasbourg, France on Thursday.

Berlin - The suspect in the deadly shooting attack at a Christmas market in eastern France was jailed for burglary in Germany but was not deemed a potentially dangerous Islamist, German authorities said Wednesday.

THE Thai Embassy in France yesterday deplored the fatal shooting by a gunman at a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg, in which a Thai tourist was one of the victims.