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Police: 6 injured, driver on the run after vehicle slams into soldiers guarding Paris suburb.

At least six injured after vehicle slams into group of soldiers in Paris suburb.

A police operation is now underway, with officers looking for a vehicle, after a car rammed soldiers in France.

The car sped off after hitting six members of Opération Sentinelle, part of France’s ongoing state of emergency introduced after the November 2015 terrorist attacks.

The officers were standing by their vehicle at about 8am at Place de Verdun not far from the town hall in Levallois Perret.

Six military personnel were hurt – two of them seriously. The two seriously injured soldiers have been taken to the Percy military hospital at Clamart, near the French capital. None of the injuries are life-threatening.

Patrick Balkany, the mayor of Levallois Perret, told BFMTV that a BMW parked nearby appeared to have been waiting for the soldiers to leave their barracks.

He described the attack as a “deliberate aggression”.

“It’s without doubt a deliberate act … this vehicle was waiting for them,” Balkany said. “The BMW accelerated very quickly the moment they came out. This happened in the middle of the town. It happened very quickly.”