Five people have died in shootings in northern France, including near a migrant camp, and a 22-year-old man has turned himself in to police.
Four people - including two security guards and two men staying in the camp - were fatally shot in Loon-Plage, a stretch of coastline near Dunkirk, the city's chief prosecutor Charlotte Huet said in a statement.
The gunman also confessed to an earlier shooting in the nearby town of Wormhout, the prosecutor added, BBC reported.
Dunkirk's Mayor Patrice Vergriete said the motive behind the attacks "remains unknown".
Several firearms were found in the suspect's car and he was previously unknown to police, the prosecutor's statement said.
All five murders were reportedly committed within less than two hours in the Dunkirk area.
According to the prosecutor, a 29-year-old man was killed with "several gunshots" at 15:15 local time outside his house in Wormhout, a village just south of the city.
About 45 minutes later, two security guards aged 33 and 37 were killed near a port in Loon-Plage, just west of Dunkirk, Huet added.
Minutes later, two other men aged 19 and 30 were also shot dead. They were staying in the nearby migrant camp.
Mayor Vergriete described the incident as a "tragedy" and said "an individual coldly murdered several people" in the area.
Xavier Bertrand, head of the region's assembly, confirmed on X that five people had died in a "tragic event".
French media reported a large emergency services presence close to a migrant camp, though it is unclear if the shootings took place inside a settlement.
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