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Two people killed in French supermarket hostage-taking

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Two people were killed when a gunman screaming “Allahu Akbar” shot at police and took hostages in a supermarket in southwestern France on Friday  and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the incident appeared to be a terrorist act.

A source at the Interior Ministry said two people had died and three others were wounded. Eric Menassi, the mayor of the town of Trebes, told BFM TV that the hostage-taker was now alone with one police officer in the supermarket and all other hostages were free.

The station reported that the hostage-taker has claimed allegiance to Islamic State and that he has demanded the release of Salah Abdeslam – the prime surviving suspect in the Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015.

More than 240 people have been killed in France in attacks since 2015 by assailants who pledged allegiance to, or were inspired by, Islamic State.

 

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