Man kills three people in France in suspected terrorist shooting spree
Trèbes, France — At least three people were killed on Friday in a shooting spree and hostage siege in southern France by a man claiming allegiance to Islamic State (IS), security sources said. Security forces killed the gunman — believed to be a Moroccan who was on a watchlist of suspected Islamic extremists — after he carried out three separate attacks in the medieval town of Carcassonne and nearby Trèbes. The man first hijacked a car in Carcassonne, killing a passenger and injuring the driver, before shooting a police officer who was out jogging with his colleagues nearby. He then drove to a Super U supermarket in the sleepy town of Trèbes and holed up there for more than three hours with hostages, killing at least two people, according to sources. A witness reported that the assailant was armed with knives, a gun and grenades and shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) before going into the supermarket. "A man shouted and started firing several times," one shopper at the superma...
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