Spain, where the In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade was can­celled this year, a very dif­fer­ent scene un­fold­ed thou­sands of miles away in Bei­jing.

A gun­man was killed and a doc­tor wound­ed dur­ing a failed am­bush and rob­bery in Champs Fleurs ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing, when an off-du­ty prison of­fi­cer in­ter­vened, po­lice said.