French national police say two people have been killed and about a dozen wounded in a shooting and hostage-taking in a supermarket in southern France. Reports AP.
A spokesman with the national police service told The Associated Press the attacker was still in the supermarket in the town of Trebes, but it was unclear if there were people still inside with him.
The spokesman said a police operation to apprehend the assailant is still underway. The spokesman was not authorized to be publicly named.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe says all information suggests that the shooting inside a supermarket in southern France and the earlier shooting of a police officer "seems to be a terrorist act".
Philippe says the hostage situation is ongoing Friday inside the Super-U supermarket in the small town of Trebes. A police official earlier said that one person had been shot dead and another seriously wounded inside the supermarket.
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