Police cordoned off an area of the Champs Élysées in Paris after a car was deliberately driven into a police van before bursting into flames on Monday afternoon.
The Foreign Office has told British people in Paris to adhere to French authority advice, which is currently to keep away from the area and to ‘respect the police cordon’.
The driver died in the incident and a police search of the vehicle found a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles in the car.
No-one else was injured in the incident, which happened close to the Élysée presidential palace and the US embassy.
It happened the day after the end of parliamentary elections in France.
In April, a policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in an attack on the Champs Élysées.
