Hundreds of police officers have been deployed in Normandy in the search for Mohamed Amra, who escaped a police van transporting him to jail on Tuesday.

Paris state prosecutor Laure Beccuau told reporters that just before 11:00 local time (09:00 BST) on Tuesday the van carrying Amra crossed the toll barrier in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France and “immediately, a Peugeot vehicle hit it from the front to stop it”.

French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti told reporters one of the officers killed “leaves behind a wife and two children who were meant to celebrate their 21st birthday in two days”.

Amra was convicted of burglary on 10 May and had been indicted by prosecutors in Marseille for a kidnapping that led to a death.

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