Five people wounded in shootout linked to drug trafficking in France

Hundreds of people were involved in the drug-related violence in the western French city of Poitiers, with teenagers among those injured.

Five people, including three teenagers, have been seriously injured following a shootout linked to drug trafficking in western France, in the latest such violence to involve children.

The violence erupted in front of a restaurant overnight in the western city of Poitiers and turned into a brawl involving up to 600 people, France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said on Friday.

"It started with a shootout at a restaurant and ended with a brawl between rival gangs that involved several hundred people," Retailleau told French news channel BFM TV.