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| Trebes siege: Two people dead in French supermarket 'terror attack', police say | Trebes siege: Two people dead in French supermarket 'terror attack', police say |
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| Two people have been killed in the ongoing suspected terror attack in Trebes in the south of France, national police have confirmed to The Independent. | Two people have been killed in the ongoing suspected terror attack in Trebes in the south of France, national police have confirmed to The Independent. |
| One police officer and one woman are also confirmed to be injured after a gunman claiming allegiance to Isis took up to eight hostages in a supermarket in southern France. | |
| The attacker struck at the Super U shop in Trèbes, near Toulouse, on Friday morning and is thought to be alone inside the shop with a single police officer after releasing a number of other hostages, according to the town’s mayor. | |
| Earlier, a policeman was shot and wounded while jogging with colleagues in Carcassonne, a 15-minute drive away, by the same suspect, the secretary-general of the SGP Police-FO union told the Associated Press. | |
| AFP reported the gunman had claimed allegiance to Isis and French prime minister Edouard Philippe said "all information suggests it is a terror attack". | |
| A supermarket customer who was in the shop at the time told France Info: "A man cried and fired a lot of gunshots. I saw a fridge door, I told people to come find shelter. | |
| "There were 10 of us and we stayed there for one hour. There were more gunshots and we left by the back exit. He shouted Allah something, I didn’t see him.” | |
| French media has reported that the gunman and hostage-taker is of Moroccan descent and was known to authorities. Reports suggest he has asked for the release of Paris November 2013 attacker Salah Abdeslam. | |
| France has been on high alert since a string of Islamic extremist attacks in 2015 and 2016 that killed more than 200 people. | |
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