A man was killed while sleeping in his bed by a stray bullet during an incident in a drug ring adjacent to his home on Saturday night into Sunday in Dijon, France.

“At least two” people in a car fired several shots at the facade of the apartment building, Dijon prosecutor Olivier Karakots said. The 55-year-old man, who was sleeping in his apartment with his wife and two children, was struck and killed while lying in bed, the prosecutor explained.

“My brother, I and my mother were woken up by the gusts. The shooting stopped, then started again. And when we went to see my father who was sleeping in his bed, he was dead,” sobbed the victim’s 23-year-old daughter, who asked not to be named.

“I would like France to protect its residents more, I want to leave Dijon,” added the girl, noting that their apartment building had been targeted a few years ago.

The perpetrators remain elusive.

Bullet marks are visible at the entrance of the building. “The number of shots fired is quite impressive,” the prosecutor said, without confirming that 60 shell casings had been found, as a police source said earlier.

Many residents told AFP they had “frequent” problems with drug dealers and users in their neighborhood. Low-cost prefabricated houses have recently been built in this district. It is located behind an asylum seeker center and hosts many families of political refugees or asylum seekers.

The war between drug dealers for control of trafficking centers is becoming increasingly bloody as the perpetrators now use more lethal weapons. In Bouches-de-Rhône alone this year more than 40 people have been killed, three of whom were “collateral victims”. In Nîmes, a 10-year-old child was killed in August by a bullet, in an exchange of fire between drug dealers.