A man who had recently been released from prison on a terrorism charge was shot and killed by a police officer after he allegedly tried to attack another officer with a knife and scissors near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Friday.

The incident happened near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the ceremony for relighting the eternal flame, which is carried out nightly.

The unidentified man, who is a French national born in 1978, allegedly tried to attack an officer guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and was shot by another officer.

He died of his wounds at a hospital, the French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said.

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He was previously sentenced to 17 years in prison in Brussels in 2013 on a terrorist-related offense of attempted murder of three police officers in Belgium and had just been released in December.

The man ended up serving 12 years in prison and was placed under police supervision with routine checks, the French prosecution office said.

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The French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation into the man related to his ties to "terrorist enterprise" before his death.

The man was held in a Belgian prison until 2015, when he was transferred to France and released on Christmas Eve.

The Arc de Triomphe was closed to guests after the incident, in which no one else was hurt.

The Arc de Triomphe, at the end of the Champs-Élysées, is one of Paris and Europe’s most popular sights, with millions of tourists visiting the monument in the heart of France’s capital each year.

Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Dramatic bodycam video shows a Florida deputy pulling a woman from a burning car just moments before the vehicle becomes engulfed in flames.

The incident happened after a woman was forcefully carjacked Sunday night, and the suspect drove away with her 1-year-old child still in the back seat, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

Deputies found the stolen car a few streets away, but when they tried to initiate a stop, the suspect crashed into another vehicle, causing a fiery wreck, officials said.

Deputy Almin Residovic ran toward the car that was hit, asking a fellow deputy for a "puncher" to break a window.

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After pulling the car door open, he found a woman inside with her hair on fire.

"Oh, there's a person bro!" Residovic is heard exclaiming in the footage.

The sheriff's office said "without hesitation" Residovic pulled the woman from the burning vehicle, dragging her to safety and providing emergency medical aid until help arrived.

Video showed him repeatedly asking the woman if there was anybody else in the car. Authorities later confirmed a 14-year-old escaped the vehicle before law enforcement arrived.

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"Please stay with me," Residovic told the woman. "Stay with us. Come on. We need to get you away from the car. … Just hang out, you're OK."

Residovic turned to another first responder, saying, "Bro, I got to her just in time. Literally, [at] the last second, I got to her."

At the same time, another deputy safely removed the 1-year-old from the stolen vehicle, unharmed, according to authorities.

The carjacking suspect, Richard Younger, 34, was arrested at the crash scene and is charged with multiple felonies in relation to the incident.

"We are incredibly proud of Officer Residovic’s courage and the swift, coordinated response of all the officers involved," the sheriff's office wrote in a statement. "After speaking with the woman on the phone this afternoon, she tells us she is incredibly grateful to be alive and for the quick actions taken by Officer Residovic."

Authorities said the woman from the burning car, who has not been publicly identified, is continuing to recover.