A gunman has shot and wounded three people on a high-speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris before being overpowered by passengers and arrested by police.

The shooting happened at around 6pm as the Thalys train was travelling near Arras in northern France, the French state rail company SNCF said.

French media said the gunman had shot a Kalashnikov on board the train, and was also armed with knives.

The local paper La Voix du Nord reported that two U.S. Marines on the train had overpowered the man. The paper reported that the Marines had intervened when the man was loading heavy ammunition in a toilet on the train. Both marines were reported to have been injured, one by gunfire, the other by a knife.

Read the article “U.S. Marines ‘Take Down’ Gunman on Paris-Bound Train” on theguardian.com.