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| Trèbes terror attack: Investigation launched into gunman Redouane Lakdim after three killed in hostage siege - as it happened | |
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| A terror attacker has been shot dead by police after he took hostages and fired at officers in the south of France. | A terror attacker has been shot dead by police after he took hostages and fired at officers in the south of France. |
| Police raided the Super U shop in Trèbes early this afternoon and killed Redouane Lakdim, 26, who is said to have killed three people near Toulouse and claimed affiliation with Isis. | Police raided the Super U shop in Trèbes early this afternoon and killed Redouane Lakdim, 26, who is said to have killed three people near Toulouse and claimed affiliation with Isis. |
| Officials believe he hijacked a car in Carcassonne at around 10am and killed one of the passengers. | |
| He is then thought to have fired on a group of policemen who were jogging, wounding one in the shoulder, before driving to a supermarket three miles from Carcassonne and holding around 50 customers hostage. | |
| He killed two of them and injured 16 more before police stormed the shop and shot him dead. | |
| Interior minister Gérard Collomb said Lakdim then shot at a group of police officers before hiding inside the supermarket, where two more people were killed. | Interior minister Gérard Collomb said Lakdim then shot at a group of police officers before hiding inside the supermarket, where two more people were killed. |
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