Gunman wounds 3 people on a high-speed train in France

A machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on a high-speed train in France on Friday before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier. Officials said the attacker was arrested after the shooting when the Amsterdam-to-Paris train stopped at Arras station in northern France. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the French anti-terrorism prosecutor was investigating the incident and that the gunman's motives were not known. France has been on high security alert since Islamist militants killed 17 people in and around Paris in January. Since the January attacks in Paris there have been other incidents. In June, a suspected Islamist beheaded his boss and tried to blow up a US-owned industrial gas plant in the suburbs of Lyon. And in July, French officials said they had prevented an attack on a senior French military official by arresting four people whose leader had links to jailed jihadists. French President Francois Hollande said he had talked to Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and that the two governments were cooperating in the investigation. The Belgian government is considering taking extra security measures, a spokesman said, according to Reuters.

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