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A wedding guest died when she was shot in the head during the party.

The woman, aged 19 or 20, was in the street when celebratory shots were fired from a procession of cars involved in another wedding.

Emergency services treated her at the scene in northern France but she later died in hospital .

Fabien Thieme, mayor of the town of Marly, said: "This young woman of 19 to 20 years of age took a buckshot bullet to the head.”

“They were driving past but the bullet hit her.”

Locals detained a man in his late twenties before he and the 26-year-old driver of the car were arrested by police following Saturday's incident.

Prosecutor of Valenciennes, Francois Perain, said: “The suspect took the hunting rifle to fire in the air to ‘add to the atmosphere’.”

Casings found in the car suggest the suspect shot the gun, a 12-calibre shotgun, several times as they drove by.

It is not the first time tragedy has struck following celebratory gunfire at a wedding party.

In 2012 more than 20 than 20 women and children were killed at a wedding in Saudi Arabia after celebratory shots brought down an electric cable.